Word: duehay
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City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 says Vellucci has taken more and more liberal positions since 1968. Not surprisingly it was the four liberal votes on the council that elected Vellucci mayor. Vellucci claims he did not have to make any deals for the job because "What were they going to do, vote for [City Councilor Thomas W.] Danehy?" He is the swing vote for the liberal coalition on practically every significant issue, including rent control, approval of a civilian police commissioner and combining Cambridge's two high schools (the mayor also serves as the seventh member of the school...
City Councilor Francis Duehay '55, running for re-election on the slate, said last week he has worked in his position as chairman of the Council Committee on Finance to cut city expenses by abolishing patronage jobs and to introduce professional accounting methods in city budgeting...
Following the usual split, Councilors Barbara Ackerman, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voted for the curbs, while independents Clem, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Leonard J. Russell and Walter J. Sullivan opposed all but the weakest of the petitions...
City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said yesterday the changes will take four to five years to complete, and when it is finished, the Square will be "much, much more attractive visually...
City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said the Globe article was unclear whether Vellucci took continual leaves of absence, which are permissible by state law, or whether he had a "no-show" position...