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...Dianne Dunfey, one spokesperson for the protesters, said demonstrators planned to be back at the plant this morning to block the gates when workers reported for work...
...statewide newspaper. In the past Loeb has successfully helped torpedo the candidacies of men he found distasteful -most notably, Edmund Muskie, whom he goaded to damaging tears during the 1972 primary-and has managed to force candidates to address issues he considers important. Says New Hampshire Liberal Democrat Walter Dunfey: "We ought to have the opportunity to have our candidates address national, not local issues. But Loeb bear-traps them...
Born the sons of Leroy Dunfey, a Lowell, Mass, storekeeper and small-time Irish politician who died in 1952, the five innkeeping Dunfeys (three other brothers set off on their own, and four sisters all became nuns) first set up business in the resort town of Hampton Beach. Beginning with a single hot-dog stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland...
Though the Dunfeys often operate under franchises, President John Dunfey says that the family's chief asset is its effort "to keep the personal involvement in the business that we had when we had just a hot-dog stand." To keep up "the spirit and warmth of the old Yankee taverns," the Dunfey inns lure travelers with such country titles as "Cracker Barrel Lounge...
Before long, Dunfey inns will have another feature. In August, when the entire 13-member clan jets to Dublin for a reunion on the ould sod, the family plans to recruit local barmaid talent to staff "Dunfey's Taverns," being set up in the family establishments...