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...services. The system is used for a vehicle for employment, not services." Patronage has long been a publicity accepted part of Boston's politics, permeating city hall and the courtsystem, but its widespread presence has made the system close to being inoperative. The school committee returned Kerrigan's brother-in-law to his custodial job after a court found him guilty of stealing several dozen school department tape recorders. The department spends close to $7 million on custodial salaries, despite the findings of several studies recommending a more economical contracting service. This waste cannot be blamed on an inadequate bureaucracy...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...Young. Why had he waited so long? Said Montalvo, with tears in his eyes: "I wanted to come out of hiding before, but only now did I think it was. safe. The Nationalists shot my brother-in-law dead, and my family told me of friends who disappeared or were shot. I had to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Mayor Who Came Out of the Cellar | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...Acapulco, Hughes' condition worsened, but his retinue seemed confused and powerless. The chief physician, Dr. Wilbur Thain, a general practitioner from Utah who is the brother-in-law of Bill Gay, was not even there. He had gone off a few days earlier to Florida. In his absence, the other physicians seemed unable to take any decisive action. On Saturday, April 3, 1976, Margulis stepped into the small, blacked-out room where Hughes lay dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban high mortgage, low-admission Dover...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban high mortgage, low-admission Dover...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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