Word: mcdonoughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They can lick envelopes all day long for Mrs. Hicks, for Ianella, Dapper O'Neil, Barry Hynes or Peter Hines, Kevin White, John McDonough or Nick Abraham. Then they can all run home and tell the boys on the corner how things are down at "the headquaaattters" and how Himself is a shuuuuurrr winner. The only ones that don't have fun are the ones working for Logue and John Winthrop Sears. They're so damn busy convincing themselves that they're saving the city from the crumbs, they don't have any fun, a'tall...
...there weren't any neighborhood candidates like Hynes, Ianella, and McDonough, she'd come down the pike with no trouble. However, there are neighborhood candidates and the votes these ones will get are votes that she could use. But she won't get them because, you see, the first loyalty is to the old neighborhood. And anyway not every-one, naming no names, of course, loves the idea of a lady mayor...
...against racial imbalance, won a plurality of votes only in the Back-Bay-Beacon Hill area and in Allston. Both are middle-class white neighborhoods, buffered from Roxbury geographically as well as economically. In the final totals Gartland was shoved out of the number have position by John J. McDonough, a complete newcomer whose only stated virtue was his accordance with Mrs. Hicks's philosophy...
...successful candidates, only Mrs. Hicks did any campaigning. But she plugged Eisenstadt, Lee, O'Connor, and McDonough whenever she got the chance. She spoke ominously of "busing all over the city," encouraging the casual bigots' fears that their children might someday be bused into Negro neighborhood schools, although law requires that parents give permission before their children can be transported...
...young lawyers, Eisenstadt and McDonough, School Committee seats can provide invaluable contacts. They will be in the public eye and in the swim of Boston politics, an excellent opportunity to extend their professional reach. The School Committee job probably hasn't done Mrs. Hicks's law practice any harm. Furthermore, the School Committee provides one access route to the City Council, which is a traditional source of Boston mayors...