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...said that since inauguration day last Monday, the Council majority of five independents had been trying to select a Mayor, but couldn't agree among themselves. Vellucci said that he himself had submitted his own Mayoralty candidacy, but had never received another vote except from his friend, Thomas M. McNamara. (Actually, Vellucci also received a vote from Andrew T. Trodden on the fourth ballot...
...McNamara Supports...
...other hand, certain independents, most obviously incumbent Mayor Thomas M. McNamara, are hoping the CCA bloc will settle on them as a compromise. This happened two years ago when McNamara won on the first ballot, with three CCA Councillors switching...
...independent voting was newly elected Andrew T. Trodden, who voted in succession for Walter J. Sullivan, Thomas M. McNamara, Alfred Velucci, John D. Lynch, and himself. In Monday's first ballot, he had also voted for himself...
Incumbent Mayor McNamara voted to re-elect himself on all but the last ballot, when he chose Velucci. The latter voted for himself each time, and upon receiving Trodden's endorsement on the fourth ballot, jokingly declared: "It's the first time I even got two votes...