Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political hold which Curley has kept over Boston has been a very strange thing; losing as many times as he has won the race for mayor, he can hardly be called invincible. Yet after every defeat, when his opponents predicted the end of bossism in Boston, Curley has displayed remarkable resiliency and come back to win again. One reason undoubtedly is that he leaves the city in such a poor financial condition when he is defeated that the burden of reform overwhelms the next mayor. The two men that shared the mayoralty with him during the Twenties, Malcolm E. Nichols...
...end of the first period Dudley went ahead on a sustained drive climaxed by a delayed pass from halfback Dave Gilbert to Bill Montieth. In the second quarter a pass from Leverett fullback Fabian Bradbury to Jerry Gallo put the Bunnies deep in Dudley territory, and Jim Wykoff bucked 15 yards for the winning touchdown. Gallo converted...
...Commuters showed more power in the line in the second half, but their passing failed to click. Near the end of the game Dudley got down to the Leverett 7 yard-line, but lost the ball on downs. The Bunnies kicked out to the 40 and held for the rest of the game...
...featured Stretch Mazzone and Dike Hyde at end, Will Davis and Chief Bender at tackle, John Coan and Howie Houston at guard, and Paul O'Brien at center. The starting backfield is Bill Henry at quarterback, Hall Moffie at wingback, John West, fullback, and Chuck Roche at tailback...
This made local citizenry unhappy and in November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...