Word: sullivans
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Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, who stayed out of the fight over DeGuglielmo, agreed with Hayes and Goldberg that Trodden--"one very able and capable attorney"--should not have been dismissed. Sullivan, however, later voted to retain Dunphy in office, thus confirming the dismissal of Trodden...
When DeGuglielmo finished, the vote was taken. Five councillors -- Crane, Mrs. Ackermann, Danehy, Mahoney, and Vellucci voted to fire the City Manager. Hayes, Bernard Goldberg, and Cornelia B. Wheeler opposed the removal motion. Sullivan voted present...
...council elected Sullivan Mayor. (In Cambridge the Mayor has little real power, save as chairman of the School Committee.) Sullivan, who received votes from two of DeGuglielmo's supporters, stayed out of the subsequent fight over the manager...
Another, and possibly final round, was fought last Monday as the two council factions clashed over the legality of the removal motion. DeGuglielmo's supporters then reiterated their opposition to an interim manager, but to no avail. The majority five, plus Sullivan, voted to appoint Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy to the post...
...there is even an outside chance that City politics might grow a little quieter in the near future. The wranglings of the past two years have taken a toll; more than one long-term friendship has been strained--or snapped. In his inaugural address, Mayor Sullivan said he hoped that his administration would be one of "harmony." Though only a word, it is a word heard more frequently around City Hall these days...