Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he died at age 83 in 1958, Curley had run Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
...Sullivan Shea, though, was all in favor of the idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor to sit in city hall." From darkest Chicago, far from the hub of the solar system, former Harvard Running Back Edward Cronin chimed in, "I proudly wish to add my name to the growing rolls...
Thomas F. August, mayor of Somerville, said yesterday that contrary to the allegations of the suit, the city had hired all 12 sanitary code enforcers by Thursday. Hearings on the suit reopen March...
...bargaining situations or games, as they are called in Raiffa's course, are abstracted and simplified from more complex real-life business situations. One student might play the role of a policeman's union leader, the other a city mayor. The two sit down and negotiate a contract, each attempting to get as favorable an agreement...
...introduce the film segments and provide a stable rhythm. The triple anchor system created visual anarchy which prevented a clear flow and added nothing in the bargain. The disconcerting lack of a focus did not, however, obscure a fine report by Richard Mayk on the Democratic primary for mayor...