Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City politics. Ever since January of 1966, when he rounded together five council votes to fire the then City Manager John J. Curry '19, DeGuglielmo had been walking on a tightrope. A minority bloc of four councillors led by Curry's long-time friend and ally, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35--had made their dislike of the DeGuglielmo administration quite clear, hitting the Manager on issues ranging from the tax rate to the printing of the City's annual report...
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...
...quite obvious that the hearing has been waived," Crane said, noting that DeGuglielmo had bid good-bye to City employees and moved out of his office on Friday...
When the vote came on the interim manager, the five--Crane, Barbara Ackermann, Thomas W. Danehy, Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Alfred E. Vellucci, along with Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, voted for Dunphy. Hayes and DeGuglielmo's other supporters voted present...
Defending his friendship with the Wasserman family, Crane said that his "attachment" to them dated back to the 1920's, long before his entrance into politics...