Word: devers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor claims among his culinary achievements the invention of the hero sandwich roll), and then went looking for a job. Naturally, the first place for a young politician to look in those days was the State House, so he finessed his way into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation as a rising political star (he had already made a name for himself as a perennial School Committee candidate) that he arranged the tax department job on the spot." Paul Dever was a fine man," Vellucci concludes...
KEVIN McCLUSKEY grew up in Columbia Point in the early sixties when the Point was racially mixed. For six years he attended Dever Elementary School and he knows that white and black children can attend the same school without conflict. Last year while serving as a high school representative on the Boston School Committee Kevin came to know why most schools in Boston remain racially segregated. "The members of the School Committee are, above all interested in their political futures." Kevin explains, and it has been politically expedient in Boston to oppose school integration...
Kevin McCluskey moved from Columbia Point to Dorchester and from Dever Elementary Harvard. Though the community in which he now lives has opposed school integration in the past, he believes that it would accept it if those authority were solidly behind it. "It's too bad that the whole thing is in the hands of politicians...
...controversy over Buckley's decision recalls occasions in the 30's when two Governors of Massachusetts twitted Harvard over its traditional dress at Commencement. Gov. Paul Dever out raged tradition-minded alumni by appearing in a regular tuxedo and straw...