Word: hud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomats turned out to admire the portraits and toast the artists-many of whom were present along with their subjects. Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk was on hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait, Monk admitted, pleased him "more now than when I first saw it." HUD Secretary George Romney joined Senators Javits and Fulbright, along with CIA Director Richard Helms, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the city's mayor, Walter Washington, and a roster of other notable guests...
City Manager James L. Sullivan, Justin Gray, his assistant for Community Development, and City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes flew down to Washington, D.C. yesterday morning for a meeting with Massachusetts congressmen and senators on the alleged blackmail by the two Federal agencies. Gray reported last week that HUD had threatened to cut off funds for housing projects unless the City agreed to state and Federal proposals on the Inner Belt and the Route 2 extension...
...blackmail" was made on Sunday night by Justin M. Gray, assistant to the city Manager for Community Development. Gray said that HUD officials had told him that funds for certain urban renewal projects in the City would be held up unless the City went along with plans for the highways...
Denying Gray's charge, an HUD official yesterday said, "No firm decision has been made on any of the projects." The HUD official, George Beaton, assistant director of the Regional office in New York, added, "We do like to know highway plans before we make any housing project committments. This is just so that we don't build an expensive project in a place where it will have to be torn down to build a road...
...Neill, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee, is also planning a meeting with Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe and Secretary of HUD George Romney to find the source of the decision to apply pressure on Cambridge. "On its face it appears to be a squeeze play to us," a spokesman for O'Neill said yesterday...