Embankment highway bill is adopted by the Massachusetts Senate.

Defeated two weeks earlier, the bill to allow construction of a parkway along the Storrow Memorial Embankment is approved by a single vote. It was supported by Massachusetts senator Philip Bowker (R-Brookline) and the Greater Boston Development Committee and was opposed by Storrow Memorial Embankment Protective Association, which includes conductor Arthur Fiedler and James Jackson Storrow III, who subsequently resigns from the group after a proposal is made to name the highway be named for his late father. (His mother, who had opposed construction of such a parkway, died in 1944.) The highway opens in 1951.*