Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan is proud of his heritage--"the Sullivans have been in Cambridge since the early 19th Century--but also of his own rise to power and glory. The fourth of the Dude's eight children, Edward J., attended St. Paul's Parochial Primary School and Rindge Technical High School before a four-year hitch with the Seabees in the Pacific. Later he drove trucks for his father's firm, the M.A. Sullivan Trucking Company, of which he is now general manager. He first ran for office in November 1949, at the age of 28, following his father's death...
...Sullivans are here to stay," quoth Cambridge's new mayor, Edward J. Judging by last November's election results and his father's prolification--four sons and four daughters--who would argue? The elder Sullivan, "Mickey the Dude" to friend and foe alike, got himself elected to the City Council with enormous majorities and kept himself there until his death in 1949 by suing the Lampoon, threatening to change the name of Harvard Square, and decrying "the Godless communism raging within the ivy-covered walls." Eddie still rallies the voters under the "tow-away-student-cars" banner occasionally...
...seems that attacks on the University have gotten votes--lots of them. Both Sullivan and his father Michael A. consistently got high totals at each council election, and Eddie outdistanced his nearest rival by almost two to one in last year's campaign. But compared to his father, the present mayor is a mild man. The Dude once pushed a bill through the City council renaming Harvard Square 'Washington Square' before that august body knew what had happened; it subsequently rescinded the measure...
...burgermeister isn't too happy with the work of his predecessors. "I'm going to do more than's been done around here in the last ten years," he vowed, but would not commit himself as to exactly what he is going to do. On the whole, Sullivan thinks the University and the City "get along pretty well," but he'd be happier if the College would ban students' cars. Eddie isn't too happy about expansion either. "Pretty soon there won't be any taxable property left in this city if Harvard keeps buying it up. If they want...
...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...