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Lamport urged in 1966 that vacant industrial land be sheltered from taxes so that the owners would have an incentive to leave it undeveloped rather than asking for rezoning to another purpose. "Man's dignity begins with a permanent job, not one created by relief or any governmental agency," he said.
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Lamport's principal opponent in the election that followed later that year was Mary
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in high school. He said he had received a certificate for the medal but could not find it. It was also revealed that
Lamport had been arrested and fined in September 1938 for the illegal possession of two slot machines in a restaurant at 10271
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management under combat conditions. Extracts of handbook adopted by War
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