Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday officials requested a bigger increase, adding that tax-exempt organizations like Harvard and MIT should give the city a little more than they already...
...responsible for the debacle? "It just doesn't make sense to me that a group of law-abiding people like the Mennonites would come in here on tourist visas and settle down and start farming," says Seminole Mayor Bob Clark. "They were just getting some bad advice?or someone was deceiving them." Says Reimer: "Rumors, rumors, all is rumors. But I cannot explain to them myself how it happened." Says Seth Woltz, a real estate appraiser who helped sell the Mennonites the land: "They had very few questions about the deal when we closed it. As far as their immigrant...
...their rooftops as the river spilled 25 ft. over flood stage and lapped at the eaves. Residents in boats actually had to look down at nearly submerged street signs to know where they were. As 17,000 people fled, parts of Jackson's downtown business area were inundated. Mayor Dale Danks estimated damage at up to $500 million...
...crowd marched from the Common to Mayor Kevin White's home in Mount Vernon Square off Charles St. While the demonstrators remained silent during most of the walk, they took up the chant "No More Murders" as they picked on the sidewalk outside White's house. White had left Boston for the weekend and was not at home during the demonstration...
...least the third question is true. Boston Mayor Kevin White has said the first question is true (although he may regret saying it to the press). And Bostonians, swamping the Boston Globe with letters to the editor protesting the planned sale of the paintings to the Smithsonian Institution, have said that even if the second question isn't true. Boston harbors enough of our "heritage" to justify its claim to the portraits...