Word: mayor
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Sociological Theories. Her disguise as Lone Ranger pitted against the Beacon Hill and Cambridge Establishment is reminiscent of James Michael Curley's durable appeal to Bostonians of another generation. And the notion that Kennedy men cannot lose in cod country is illusory: Mayor John Collins, who is retiring after two terms, originally beat a Kennedy endorsee. Both Lawyer Hicks, 48, and Lawyer White, 37, are Irish Catholics, but Mrs. Hicks is the daughter of Judge William Day, whose memorial is a boulevard in the Irish quarter of South Boston, and her address allows her to warble Southie...
Louise Day Hicks is a bulky grandmother who would not stand out in a supermarket crowd. Yet she stood out so far from nine male candidates in Boston's nonpartisan primary last week that she may well become the city's next mayor. With the general-election contest narrowed to herself and a bland fellow Democrat, Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, it would take a rash bookie to rate the lady an underdog...
Back on Kenmore Square, the crowd screamed "Williams for Mayor...
Second, and more important, the Dooling case was explicitly concerned with the distribution of power between a mayor and city council. When the judges spoke of subjects "outside" the "field of authorized action" of the city council, they meant issues reserved for the mayor's attention...
...York, the United Federation of Teachers, an A.F.T. local, managed to keep most of its members out of class despite the coaxing of top school officials. As teacher and student absenteeism grew, Mayor John Lindsay and the school board came up with a $135 million package of pay and benefits spread over 26 months, an $11.9 million increase over their original offer. It will mean at least $1,200 more for some 55,000 teachers. In frantic bargaining, the union won an extra weekly hour of classroom preparation time for teachers in ghetto elementary schools, but allowed its demand...