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...ENGLAND TRADITIONS die hard. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for instance, tourists continue to through to Faneuil Hall, the official Bay State beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight...

Author: By Evan T. Barr, | Title: Spring Housecleaning | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...ignorant peasant lass who was martyred after she heeded the voice of a developing conscience and dared to point out the lack of adequate safety measures and quality controls in a plutonium-recycling plant where she was employed. This facility was owned by a corporate giant (Kerr-McGee) working under a Government contract, and Silkwood died in an auto accident on her way to show a New York Times reporter supposed documentary evidence of her charges. Thus, the possibility that someone may have murdered her in order to silence her has occurred to many on the left and among feminists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tissue of Implications | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

House Speaker Thomas W. McGee has reportedly recommended a "grandfather clause" postponing the effect of the bill for one year, so that people now 20 would not lose their drinking privileges. Should the bill go through in its present form, some 85 percent of Harvard undergraduates would be unable to drink legally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinking Age | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

...Sandra McGee Bellevue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1983 | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...them over his incriminating Massachusetts ones. "It was simply impossible to find a legal space," he explains. Even the well-connected began looking for shortcuts. The Boston Globe revealed last month that Deputy Mayor Lowell Richards III had dismissed $1,080 in parking tickets for three children of Thomas McGee, the speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spaced Out | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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