Word: delaney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...
Last June, when tax scandals were in the news from New York to San Francisco, Delaney was summarily suspended by the President. In September he was indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of bribery and malfeasance in office...
Collector Denis Delaney of Boston was fired three weeks later, then indicted on six counts of taking bribes in return for tax favors...
...cantata by the composer Robert Delaney was heard for the first time in 20 years last night when "John Brown's Song" was performed in Sanders Theatre by the Harvard Summer School Chorus. The work was first played in 1931, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, former director of the Harvard Glee Club...
...enthusiastic audience of 500 heard. Delaney's work as the central piece in a program of choral music. Other works included Cantatas No. 61 and 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Choruses from Jephtha" by Geroge Frederick Handel, Two Cantiones Cacrae by J. P. Sweelinck, and The Last Words of David by Randall Thompson...