Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing in the middle of the council floor, the ex-mayor often to let the weight of his words sink in He told of alleged meetings that Smith had had and how he, Crane, had received information of those meetings. Smith "didn't know that as soon as the meeting was over, someone went out and called Crane." It was the old story of political friends, who in a time of political fighting, become one's spies. And as he lambasted, Crane also lectured. Referring to his enemies, he sneeringly scolded: "These boys and rookies . . . The most important thing...
...truth of Crane's accusations will always be a matter of dispute. Certainly, Smith was no admirer of John Curry or a friend of Crane, but it is unlikely that he single-handedly--as Crane seemed to imply--sowed the disscent that brought Curry down. Cran'e speech was more significant for its tone than its substance: this fight was a personal one, and its intent was not merely to keep John J. Curry as city manager, but to reaffirm the administration of the Crane-Curry era. Crane, in short, has become combattant because he reads both conspiracy and challenge...
...mayor for the past six years, Crane was the senior partner of the collaboration, and it is indeniably he who has masterminded the defense for the Curry side. On the Council floor, he has constantly challenged Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., praised Curry, and damned his enemies. Off the Council floor, he has been intimately involved in the legal aspects of the Curry defense. Throughout, he has shown why he was mayor for six unprecedented years; he has been the most articulate, the best prepared, the most pugnacious of all the councillors...
...early days of the dispute, Crane consciously sought to destroy the power arrayed against him--the five anti-Curry votes--by demonstrating that it was, in essence, unreal. First came the mayor's election, when he attempted, it seems, to prolong the deadlocked balloting. The longer the delay, the more time there would be to work behind the scenes to shatter the majority. But the mayor's election was resolved in only a week; and with a victory for the anti-Curry forces, the dispute moved out into the open...
...first--and throughout--Crane tried to intimidate the five. He grasped at every parliamentary mistake made by an inexperienced Mayor Hayes. With his colleagues, Alfred E. Vellucci and Thomas H.D. Mahoney, he injected into the meetings the most intimate details of political maneuvering that preceded the mayor's election and the suspension of Curry. The threat was implicit: the meetings proceeded only at great risk to the political reputations of the five anti-Curry councillors. But this strategy alone failed to work, and a variety of other specters were raised before the Council...