Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crane said that city employees who had supported the former city manager, John J. Curry '19, were "being fingered." Crane singled out one young employee in the traffic department as an example...
...Crane also attributed to DeGuglielmo a criticism of last year's reduction in the tax rate from $72.60 to $72. Although there is no explicit criticism of the reduction in the budget message. DeGuglielmo and some of the five councillors who supported him are known to believe that the reduction was unnecessary and that the city could have used the additional money...
...more than three hours, and the new city manager answered questions for nearly a third of that time. After he left, however, the four councillors who had opposed his appointment introduced what may be the first of many motions to have him dismissed. (The four anti-DeGuglielmo councillors are Crane, Vellucci, Thomas H.D. Mahoney, and Walter J. Sullivan...
...supporting the motion for dismissal, Crane said that DeGuglielmo had agreed not to collect salary pending the outcome of a taxpayers suit against him. Crane predicted that the Court would permanently prohibit DeGuglielmo from collecting salary on the grounds that he receives a city pension, and that a pensioner cannot receive a salary. DeGuglielmo has said he will waive the pension; Crane has said the court will not permit that...
...think the people are going to stand for a permanent volunteer," Crane said. The dangers of "volunteer government," the ex-mayor explained later, are that a man without a salary might be subject to undue influence...