Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infuriated by the blatantly sensationlistic story by J. Wyatt Emmerich and Alexandra D. Korry in the Crimson of March 2. Your article, which by its banner headline implied a connection between Senator Kennedy and a $200 contributor to his campaign, is a disgusting example of journalistic excess. Thousands of people contribute to any political campaign. Future revelations about the activities of small contributors cannot be held to reflect on candidates...
These sentiments outraged Mary J. Sullivan of Roslindale. The Globe should stop printing "cheap-shot letters" about "a man who had an illustrious and compassionate history." Besides, Curley deserved more than a river named after him. Don't do it, was Mary J.'s vote. Mary Sullivan Shea, though, was all in favor of the idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor...
Public sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police conduct. Last week the police reduced their demands, but the strike went...
...South House Committee voted last week to send a letter to B&G asking that fences again be placed around the lawn, committee chairman Marc J. Sobil '80 said yesterday...
...There is the argument that publicity has more effect than facts," J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, said last week, adding "we'll just have to wait and see what it does to the numbers...