Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financial set-up. In the past, the hopelessly confused accounting has been the curse that Curley has placed on the head of his successors. The Boston voters elected the new mayor on the hope that he could untangle the Curley mess; with his experience as acting mayor and city clerk, Hynes has the background to satisfy this hope. But the job is ahead and the work, more than the wishes, of the Hynes supporters will be required to accomplish it successfully...
paigned on his record, called his most powerful rival, City, Clerk John B. Hynes, "a fusion candidate--a puppet of Republican State Street bankers...
...City Clerk John B. Hynes is Curley's chief opponent. As interim mayor when Curley was in jail, Hynes has established a good record for himself in city administration. Like Curley, Hynes is running on the Democratic ticket, but, unlike the present mayor, this is the first time that Hynes has ever run for political office. To beat Curley, Hynes needs 105,000 votes or roughly the total that Curley was beaten by before in 1937. As a newcomer to the Boston political scene, Hynes popularity is untested; he, personally hopes to get a majority of the age group...
...take Curley's place, the CRIMSON supports the present city clerk, John B. Hynes. He is not a strong candidate, promising neither sweeping reforms nor offering a positive program to eliminate bossism, but he is an experienced public servant. He can probably untangle better than any of the other candidates the mess in which Curley has left the city's finances. Hynes was the acting mayor of Boston for the five months that Curley was in jail at Danbury. During that time, though he did not clean the Curley appointees out of office, he opened to the public all bidding...
...mayors who follow Curley have a history of being overwhelmed by the task of reconstruction. In two instances, the executives that came after him left City Hall in near disgrace as Curley re-merged. With his training in municipal accounting while City Clerk and with his experience as acting mayor, Hynes has the equipment to reform the city's administration so that bossism cannot return...