Word: kevin
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...While Kevin H. White took his ceremonial last walk down the State House steps, 200 retarded children romped at a Christmas party inside at the lobby of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Santa Claus sat in the House Gallery anxiously eyeing the proceedings on the floor, and Rep. Edward J. Dever (Dem-Arlington) roared to his fellow legislators. "I want to go back to my district not as Judas but as John the Baptist...
...great day for Massachusetts' legislature, the General Court. It was on that day, early in the morning, that a $94 million tax bill was sent to and was signed by Governor John A. Volpe. In return for the successful enactment of the tax bill, Boston Mayor-elect Kevin H. White resigned as Secretary of State at noon. At 2 p.m. the children, students at "state schools" and the guests of the General Court, arrived for their annual Christmas party. A little later in the afternoon, despite the atemps of Rep. Dever (who likened House Speaker Davoren to Brutus...
Quinn proclaimed himself "the happiest man in Massachusetts." But Kevin White should have been even happier. On that day he witnessed the successful completion of a very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them...
Champion succeeds Edward J. Logue who opposed Kevin White in the mayoral primary. Champion's salary will be $35,000 a year, $5000 more than that of Logue who will soon fill a professorship at Boston University...
Floyd B. McKissick, the CORE leader and an old college friend of Lowenstein's, calls it "relevancy." Barney Frank '62, Mayor Kevin White's administrative assistant, calls Lowenstein's style "political practicality." Newsweek recently dubbed him "John the Baptist," the Saint who prepared the way for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's presidential candidacy...