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...Councillor Edward A. Crane '35--who filed the dismissal motion--disputed Trodden's interpretation of the statutes. According to Crane, the council could not suspend the manager until after he asked for the reasons for his dismissal and for public hearings on them. Crane said that DeGuglielmo told news media that he would not ask for hearings...
...Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr.--a chief supporter of DeGuglielmo--again resumed his attack on the so-called firing five. He attributed the dismissal to a "personal vendetta" by three councillors, supported by two new councillors who were "not aware" of City operations...
After the recess, Councillor Bernard Goldberg asked members of the firing five if they would be willing to sign the "memorandum of understanding" calling for the search. The five agreed to it in a private session Wednesday...
Several of the five took offense at what they regarded as Goldberg's attack on their word. "I'm not on trial," Councillor Thomas W. Danehy replied. Mahoney then had the memorandum read into the record and instructed the city clerk to add the five names...
During the course of the speech, Hayes referred to "one councillor" and "that man" who "ran the City from his hip pocket" before the DeGuglielmo administration. He charged the unnamed councillor with giving preferential treatment to the Wasserman Development Corporation Company, a construction company, Hayes claimed that several schools built during this period suffered from construction defects...