Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN Democrat Frank Rizzo ran Philadelphia from the mayor's office in the 1970s, people called him a bully. A former cop and police commissioner in the late 1960s, Rizzo was renowned for using his power to bash those whom he once called "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots...
...terrible impact on the city," says City Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, who was mayor at the time. "It was in turmoil and we didn't have too many men to handle the situation...
Some city politicians--notably Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--have practically made careers out of battling Harvard...
...Blacks don't like Koch, isn't it more important that Blacks mobilize and get behind a candidate that can beat Koch? What's the use of having a Black candidate just to have one? Koch will probably still be the mayor, and all that Blacks will show for it is a Black candidate that lost...
...Boston, Mayor Raymond Flynn is also facing opposition because he endorsed Daley, with whom he attended Providence College in the early '60s, in the Chicago mayoral race. Yet in 1987, Flynn went to Chicago and stumped for the late Harold Washington...