Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of Cambridge, at least those surveyed as they passed through Harvard Square yesterday, expressed little sympathy and a lot of indignation for Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy who, it was revealed last week, owes the city close to $40,000 in back taxes...
...protection was their ultimate threat in negotiations with city officials-rather like canceling Christmas. For years the police had no muscle to back up such a threat, but this time Teamster officials came in, led by Joseph Valenti, a tough, cigar-smoking troubleshooter from Detroit. On Feb. 9, when Mayor Ernest Morial refused to deal with a Teamster-backed majority in the department, the police marched...
...maiden major crisis for Morial, 49, the city's first black mayor, and eventually he capitulated. Morial agreed to negotiate with the Teamsters, and the police came back. But Valenti and his negotiators raised the stakes. This time they demanded, among other things, an increase in base pay, from $11,964 to $16,764, for patrolmen, contract coverage for ranking officers, and binding arbitration in disputes over noneconomic issues. The city balked. The new demands would have cost an additional $ 19 million, which it claimed it did not have. Morial accused the Teamsters of trying to wrest control...
LoGiudice refused to pay. The city sent another bill and a warning. LoGiudice complained to the press. The press cried out. The spirit of George Washington was invoked. The parks commission backed down. It said it would waive payment, but it insisted that its rules were good ones. Said Mayor Edward Koch: "Even George Washington would have to have a license today to chop down a tree...
BORN. To Joseph Alioto, 63, multimillionaire lawyer and former mayor of San Francisco, and Kathleen Sullivan Alioto...