Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minority candidates, George B. Oakes and Walter J. O'Brien, are not running as Democrats and therefore, in the pattern of Boston elections have very little chance of winning. The last non-Democrat that was mayor took office in 1918. Oakes, a Republican moreover, has already lost the support of State GOP leaders. In 1948, Oakes was connected with the Plan 10 Committee that attempted to change Boston's charter. O'Brien, a progressive, was a Wallaccite in 1948, and was beaten, then, by Congressman Christian Horter. O'Brien has campaigned among the unemployed especially the longshoremen...
Generally, the election issue is whether or not to re-elect Mayor Curley. An extravagant administrator, Curley has spent every cent he can get his hands on plus some of the future tax money, to employ everyone he can. He has, too, allowed even fostered sources of flagrant graft in the city's government. On the other hand, he has accomplished a number of worthwhile projects--housing, recreational facilities, reads. His opponents accuse Curley of keeping the tax rate at a sky-high $56.80; of maintaining high assessment valuation; and of abating assessed valuation discriminately. Yet, Curley can point that...
...will be the referendum to change the city's charter from Plan B to Plan A. Under the new plan, the city council would be reduced from 22 to 9 members and each election year a run-off primary would be held to reduce the field of candidates for mayor, councilman and school committeeman to two. Most important, the new charter would permit the council to override the veto of the mayor on all bills except loans and appropriations, by a two-thirds vote. Since this is the only referendum on the ballot, there is a very strong likelihood that...
Someone must replace James M. Curley as mayor of Boston. Not only has Boston lost much of its prestige by having a mayor who spent five months of his previous term in a federal penitentiary, but also it has suffered an enormous loss in dollars and cents from Curley's corrupt administration. Curley practices the philosophy of government that measures its own success by the quantity, never the quality, of the people it employs; disregarding cost, Curley has filled the city's departments with incompetents, sometimes vagrants, merely to keep his employment record high when the election comes around...
...mayor, Curley accomplished a number of worthwhile projects--the building of playgrounds, repairing of roads, and the general improvement of recreational facilities. But he did so at an extravagant cost to the city; this year, for instance, he has already borrowed on next year's taxes...