Word: reardon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concluding, Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall and his executive council last week summarily dismissed Education Commissioner James G. Reardon, who week before had testified that he signed more than $400,000 in contracts to repair hurricane damage to teachers' colleges because former Governor Charles F. Hurley told him to (TIME...
Governor Saltonstall promptly appointed to succeed Mr. Reardon, Walter Francis Downey, headmaster of Boston English High School, like Mr. Reardon, a Roman Catholic. Trim, white-haired Walter Downey, 54, a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst and a crack tennis player, sits on the bench with coaches and players at English High football games, in his excitement twists & squirms as hard as anyone on the field...
...State House for a hearing before the Governor last week went Mr. Reardon and his attorney...
...Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...
Massachusetts citizens began to speculate on Mr. Reardon's likely successor...