Word: edward
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...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...
Aides to Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) said yesterday that the senator is considering making a contribution to the Harvard Rugby Football Club. The club needs $10,000 for airfare to Monterey, Calif. to defend its spot in this weekend's national intercollegiate rugby championships...
...image seems perfectly suited to this particular Senate race where he may be able to hold the middle ground against the more conservative Shamie and Kennedy-type liberals Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden). Rep. James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence), and Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry...
...Tower, Tsongas became one of four Senators (two Democrats and two Republicans) who have announced they will not seek reelection. Seven Democrats are scrambling to succeed him. Congressman James Shannon, an ally of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is probably closest philosophically to the neo-liberal Tsongas. Congressman Edward Markey has based his reputation on passionate support of a nuclear freeze and little else. When it seemed he was alienating his liberal constituency by opposing abortion rights, Markey shifted his stand on the issue. Supporters of Lieutenant Governor John Kerry say he combines Markey's good looks with...
...London, just after World War II, the older generation complained that the entire postal system was going to perdition. There were only three deliveries a day in these straitened times. Why, before the war, there had been five. One oldtimer recalled that Edward FitzGerald, the translator of The Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, regularly wrote to London friends from his home near Lowestoft, 116 miles away, and counted on his letters being delivered before evening the same day. They had decent railroad service too in those days...