Word: kerrigans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kerrigan, who barely sneaked by two years ago, rolled to victory this month in the school committee race, politicking has brought him the chairmanship, and the disclosure of his ties with a Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
Hicks wants the councilship as a steppingstone for a higher office, and has hinted that she might run for John McCormack's seat when he retires. Kerrigan is interested in the mayoralty. The electorate is aware of these ambitions, but this awareness did not keep Kevin White, who clearly has had his eye on the governor's chair, out of the mayoralty...
Joining Hicks on the new council will be: Thomas I. Atkins. Joseph F. Timilty, John L. Saltonstall 38, John E. Kerrigan, Frederick Langone, Gerald J. O'Leary, Christopher A. lanella and Gabriel A. Piemonte...
...steady rain and the prospect of little change in Boston's dreary political weather reduced voters' turnout yesterday as less than 100,000 citizens overwhelmingly placed Louise Day Hicks and John J. Kerrigan at the top of Boston's city council and school committee races respectively...
...Kerrigan, whose controversial close friendship with Michael Lombardo, the city school repairs contractor, apparently did him little harm, finished comfortably ahead of Paul R. Tierney in the school committee race...