Word: mayors
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Indeed, as the governor, mayor, and nearly every candidate for public office in the Commonwealth have noted since at least mid-August, the visit of the Pope to Boston is an event of immense significance, one without parallel, outshining even that most memorable 11th of July 1976 when her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II addressed the city from the balcony of her royal ancestors' Province House. (Her Majesty's visit is cited as a precedent by various advocates of public support for the papal visit on the ground that the Queen is the Head of the Church of England...
...places along Boston's own Via Papale. Two remarkable Bostonians should have lived to see this day. Antagonists in life, on this day they would have been as one: William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Boston's ultramontane Cardinal Archbishop, and The Honorable James Michael Curley, Boston's irrepressible mayor and one-term governor of Massachusetts...
...major alternatives, State Rep. Melvin H. King advocates the progressive policies that Boston needs in the 1980s. King supports public housing cooperatives, opposes vacancy decontrol and has a realistic and humane grasp of the city's crime and health problems. King is not garden variety Boston mayoral candidate; he is not white, he is not Irish and he does not descend from an unbroken line of Boston pols. If Boston voters are looking for a creative, forward-looking mayor, King is a logical choice...
Incumbent mayor Kevin H. White, who spent almost $1 million on the preliminary campaign, spent yesterday wooing elderly voters and pounding the pavement in South Boston and the North End. White, who is expected to lead the field in today's election, turns 50 today...
...After November 6," King said, "Boston City Hall will no longer be a haven for political hacks and a source of conscript labor to advance the electoral fortunes of the incumbent mayor...