Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle are headed by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, who proclaims himself as the voters' "Around-the-Clock-Servant," humane, sincere, trustworthy, faithful, aggressive, honest, and capable. Sullivan predicted that he will "top the ticket," and that his group of so-called "independents" will keep control of both the City Council and the School Committee. In his clique are Al Vellucci and John Lynch, both incumbents on the City Council, Anthony Galluccio, John Briston Sullivan, and James Fitzgerald, School Committee members up for re-election. Joseph Maynard, a former School Committeman who automatically and unfailingly followed the Mayor's lead...
...battle revolves around 17 highly publicized appointments made last December by the School Committee. Five members of the group, headed by Mayor Sullivan, suspended the rules and proceeded to make what their CCA opponents term appointments based on "petty political friendship, personal friendship, or relationship." The CCA charges that the "independents," among whom was Anthony Galluccio, a CCA-endorsed candidate now running wthout CCA support, made the appointments without the legally required approval of the Superintendent of Schools and without submitting the candidates to competitive examinations...
...Sullivan Confident
This view was loudly seconded by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan who threw the meeting into an uproar when he exhorted the audience to vote "yes" on both the referendums on election day. Someone in the audience screamed, "Vote no, while someone else yelled, "Vote yes." Still another shouted, "Throw that heckler...
This remark brought wild applause from many in the audience, over which Sullivan, shaking his fist, cried, "The citizens of Cambridge want the same kind of service I have given them and will elect me once again!" With this he stalked from the hall, surrounded by screaming and yelling citizens, most of whom left with...