Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordered that Healy not eliminate the volunteer program at the Cambridge Hospital, where layoffs have been announced as a result of the budget cuts. The order was sponsored by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci...
...developers and builders and so forth -- who wanted to keep programs that I wanted to get rid of because I thought they were wasteful. I think about the names I've been called in this town. I've been called Stepin Fetchit, I've been called Silent Sam, Mr. Mayor.* I've been called Svengali. It shows what people will do. To be popular, you must have a lot of programs, a lot of money for everybody, including the builders and developers and consultants...
FOOTNOTE: *Ronald Reagan called Pierce Mr. Mayor when the President failed to recognize his Housing Secretary at a reception in June 1981, five months after Pierce had been appointed...
Their pick: Seattle Mayor Charles T. Royer, a Democrat from the Pacific seaboard with a background in journalism...
Instead, the Seattle mayor says he will look to forge greater links between the institute--which brings prominent speakers and fellows to Harvard from the world of politics--and the Kennedy School's nine other research centers...