Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his lack of a formal education, Mickey "could debate anyone on the council floor, no matter who he was," his son Edward says...
...Mickey would also routinely joke about paving over Harvard Yard and melting down the John Harvard statue for the World War II effort...
...during Sullivan's first days of service, during the Great Depression, that Mickey began practicing the brand of patronage politics that would become a family hallmark...
Fred R. Cruickshank, a longtime friend of the Sullivan family, says his mother used to tell him a story about a lady who had met "Mickey the Dude" in city hall outside the welfare office...
...Mickey did not know the woman, but when she told him that the welfare man wasn't doing anything for her, the city councillor said he'd take care of it. Sullivan then "laid the welfare man out in lather," according to Cruickshank...