Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern continued, week after week, until the inevitable happened; Atkinson announced the new tax rate with a jump of nine dollars. The Mayor, Joseph E. Degulielmo '29, who opposed reappointment, called a special session of the council for August 4, reportedly to discuss rent controls...
...special session, he made a dosperate bid for peace with the hostile councillors. He appointed the brother of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan to the water board (although Sullivan said later his brother was number one man on Civil Service rating and had been stymied for six months because of Atkinson's refusal to appoint him) and Mayor Deguglielmo's brother to the Housing Authority...
...hours before the opening of the special session, Atkinson filed a petition before the Retirement Board for a disability pension (he said he developed a bad case of ulcers on the job), and requested annual pension...
...claimed he never played politics, Atkinson showed he could play a hard, fast game--but he lost...
...opening of the special session, Councillor Sullivan raised the reappointment issue and nominated his own candidate for manager; three other councillors presented other names; finally Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 placed in nomination schoolmaster Curry, the other four switched, and with startling abruptness the reign of John B. Atkinson had ended...