Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zeal to promote Boston-themed plays, Altman thought he found an easy answer in the colorful Last Hurrah, the notorious parody of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley's last-ditch bid for re-election. What he got, however, was an unreasonably large and unmanageable cast of characters, many of whom are demoted to ornamental, cardboard cut-out status in the three-hour world of the theatre. There's Amos Force (Keith Perry), the conservative Yankee who will do whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping...
...gambled and she lost and she did not lose graciously" in the 1998 council race for mayor, Truesdell said...
While city voters appeared to return to office at least five of the six incumbents seeking re-election, they gave a plurality of their support to the council's most conservative member, Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio...
...looks like Cambridge's old-time liberals may be on their way out, as Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and former mayor Sheila Doyle Russell are retiring, and less temperate politicians are taking their places...
...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...