Word: councillor
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Curry's appointment materialized swiftly after a majority of the city councillors banded together to oust the aging reform manager John B. Atkinson who began bitterly fighting council policies. "As a matter of fact," recalls Curry, "when a councillor first suggested that I take the job, I thought he was joking. It was beyond my wildest dreams of fancy." Now the man who once tutored undergraduates in languages is the $20,000-a-year manager of one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, a position nationally respected and studied by students of government everywhere...
...while he continued tutoring, and one of his pupils later became a city councillor and the man who nominated Curry for City Manager. He was Edward A. Crane '35. "As far as he was concerned," Curry remembers, "it was merely a question of whether he was going to get 94 or 98 in his college entrance exam." In 1930 he received a Master of Education degree from Harvard and would have obtained his Ph.D. here also if it were not for the University's requirement that a student must spend half his time in residence. So instead he went...
...City Hall presented a scene of unexpectedness, the major performers were well rehearsed. The majority--an alliance of two "good government" C.C.A. councillors and three independents--had already agreed on Curry. The City Manager himself had premonitions: a week before the 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...
Immediately at the 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...
Immediately at the 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...