Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stinson contacted as many newspapers and radio stations as she could and urged them to broadcast descriptions of her missing daughter. Only The Boston Globe and WBZN radio agreed to her request. Upon learning of the death of the third woman, Mrs. Stinson led a protest to the mayor's office...
When news of the fourth murder broke, the black community reacted. State Senator Bill Owens and the mothers of the four victims demanded a public meeting with Mayor Kevin White, who hastily arranged a conference at the Bates School in Dorchester. At the meeting, which was reported on page five of the Boston Herald American and page 15 of The Boston Globe, the Mayor insisted that "community participation" was the answer to the problem of violence in the black neighborhoods, and "not necessarily" increased police protection which was the solution had demanded...
...tradition is a dying one. Nowhere outside New England are you likely to find such meetings, and even in this region, bigger towns and cities like Cambridge have switched to the more manageable mayor-city manager form of government...
...Vice Mayor Lawrence Frisoli suggested setting up a permit program to insure Cambridge residents would use the playing field, which will include a tennis court...
...suburban Lake Forest, then married a Marine Corps pilot. A 1959 crash left her widowed with an 18-month-old daughter, and she plunged into politics. Her first hero was Jack Kennedy. She became secretary-treasurer of his Chicago Citizens Committee, and she worked so hard that even Mayor Daley heard about her. He became her second hero...