Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When DeGuglielmo finished, the vote was taken. Five councillors -- Crane, Mrs. Ackermann, Danehy, Mahoney, and Vellucci voted to fire the City Manager. Hayes, Bernard Goldberg, and Cornelia B. Wheeler opposed the removal motion. Sullivan voted present...
...councillors, Crane, Vellucci, Thomas H. D. Mahoney, Walter J. Sullivan, and newcomers Barbara Ackermann and Thomas W. Danehy met privately and agreed to remove DeGuglielmo...
...Crane introduced a motion calling for the dismissal of DeGuglielmo. He gave no reasons, and did not have to, unless the City Manager requested them. Hayes immediately exercised his "charter right," which allows any councillor to delay consideration of a new piece of business until the next meeting...
...council met in a special meeting called by Crane, Mrs. Ackermann, Danehy, Mahoney, and Vellucci to decide DeGuglielmo's fate. Before the meeting finally began shortly after 10 p.m., the five met for several hours in a private room at City Hall...
...promised to present evidence at a future meeting to show that the removal of the City Manager was being led by a "a man who--as I see it--has other than the best interests of the City of Cambridge at heart." He did not specify the man, but Crane commented after the meeting, "I have a slight suspicion that he was fingering...