Word: gillen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hugh Gillen, a carpenter, sued Marie Howe for not paying him for $1700 worth of painting and wall-papering. Gillen says Howe at first told him to do an extensive remodeling job, but that halfway through--when he told her he had already done $1000 worth of construction--she told him it was too expensive. "After she told me [to cut back] I did the bare minimum, because if she didn't want me to do a lot, I didn't want to do it, either," Gillen says. But Howe said Gillen's work was shoddy, and she refused...
...Gillen's suit against Howe was successful, and she was ordered to pay Gillen for his work...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...
Former agents dominate the private security industry; Fidelifacts, Inc., and The Wackenhut Agency, two of the largest nationwide investigation and protection firms, are both headed and largely staffed by former agents. Vince Gillen, the private investigator for General Motors who sought damaging information on Ralph Nader, is a former agent...