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...Mahoney is his name, and his despair is the nth term in a series of miseries. He is born poor. He loses his mother when he is nine. He hates his father, a foul-mouthed brute who wallops his children by day and molests them by night. He dreads his visits to the priest, a hemi-homosexual who lies down beside him in bed and talks about the boy's soul while he strokes his body...
Sickened by all this, Mahoney desperately reaches out to a new life. He studies till his eyeballs boil and wins a scholarship to the university in Galway. But the struggle to escape exhausts his will to live. Fearing achievement more than failure, he subsides again into despair, quits college and sinks into the working masses, possibly forever...
...first--and throughout--Crane tried to intimidate the five. He grasped at every parliamentary mistake made by an inexperienced Mayor Hayes. With his colleagues, Alfred E. Vellucci and Thomas H.D. Mahoney, he injected into the meetings the most intimate details of political maneuvering that preceded the mayor's election and the suspension of Curry. The threat was implicit: the meetings proceeded only at great risk to the political reputations of the five anti-Curry councillors. But this strategy alone failed to work, and a variety of other specters were raised before the Council...
...prospect of a compromise to end the long dispute surprised most observers who have ranked this fight as one of the most bitter and closely-contested in many years. Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, a Curry supporter, has three times offered a "compromise" to allow Curry to remain in office until a new manager, other than DeGuglielmo, is found. Three times, including once only two days ago, it has been defeated...
...declared that the dispute over manager had become a "drag 'em out ... dog eat dog" battle, and proposed that the nine councillors convene privately and agree to let Curry stay on until a suitable successor had been found. The DeGuglielmo majority voted this proposal down, and later, when Councillor Mahoney made a similar motion, it was also defeated...