Word: ackermanns
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...councillors, Crane, Vellucci, Thomas H. D. Mahoney, Walter J. Sullivan, and newcomers Barbara Ackermann and Thomas W. Danehy met privately and agreed to remove DeGuglielmo...
When the vote came on the interim manager, the five--Crane, Barbara Ackermann, Thomas W. Danehy, Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Alfred E. Vellucci, along with Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, voted for Dunphy. Hayes and DeGuglielmo's other supporters voted present...
...another move, Councillor Barbara Ackermann proposed that Mayor Walter J. Sullivan appoint a committee composed of the entire council to consider the hiring of a new city manager. The committee would set qualifications for the manager's job, advertise the post, and interview candidates...
...will be starting out blank ... nine councillors in search of a city manager," Mrs. Ackermann commented. She said it would require "heroic efforts on the part of four councillors not to feel left out" if only five councillors chose a new manager. She also called for a "gentlemen's agreement" by which councillors would agree not to meet with or discuss possible candidates for the job except with the entire council present...
...tall, slightly stooped young man, who roams around the Committee room during meetings, whispering messages into his fellow Independent's ears, always appearing to be lining up the votes for some obscure maneuver. He cross-examines witnesses with the pugnacious gusto of a TV lawyer, and has attacked Mrs. Ackermann with such virulence that Mayor Hayes has sometimes interrupted to ask for a return to the question at hand...