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Word: mcnamara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this meeting he offered to play phonograph transcriptions of the play to the Council in order to prove that the play was "indecent," but his offer was rejected by Council President Thomas N. McNamara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Councilman Sullivan Asks For Police Investigation of Play | 6/9/1939 | See Source »

...staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1910 was a brilliant young reporter who was so sensitive that a bad concert which he covered one night gave him a splitting headache, forced him to quit work early. Ten minutes after he left the building the McNamara boys blew it up, killing 21 men. That was the first occasion when illness brought luck to Willard Huntington Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monocled Journalist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Talks Taxes With Cambridge; McNamara May Fight 'Bad' Settlement | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...possible solution to a situation in which Harvard students receive the benefits of city service and do most of their spending in Boston, while the University pays only an approximate $10.- 000 a year in "voluntary" tax payments, McNamara envisions a student charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Talks Taxes With Cambridge; McNamara May Fight 'Bad' Settlement | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...town-gown relations, McNamara said, "If Harvard, M. I. T., and Radcliffe officials sat down with public officials, they might thrash things out; sometimes, though, Harvard seems a little arrogant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Talks Taxes With Cambridge; McNamara May Fight 'Bad' Settlement | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

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