Word: trodden
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...Cambridge City Council spent an angry two hours Monday night arguing over Acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy's removal of City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden...
Three councilors--Edward A. Crane '35, Thomas W. Danehy, and Alfred E. Vellucci--denied Trodden's charges that they had illegally pressured Dunphy for his dismissal. Two weeks ago, Trodden said he felt that the council majority--including the three--had followed an illegal procedure in the removal of former City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo...
Brought before the council, City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden replied, "I think there is a conflict with the law." He urged the council to rescind the removal of DeGuglielmo, suspend him, name an interim manager, and let DeGuglielmo ask for hearings before his removal...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35--who filed the dismissal motion--disputed Trodden's interpretation of the statutes. According to Crane, the council could not suspend the manager until after he asked for the reasons for his dismissal and for public hearings on them. Crane said that DeGuglielmo told news media that he would not ask for hearings...
When Superior Court Judge Joseph Mitchell overruled Trodden last week, in his decision he criticized the Commission for failing to process the petition; they "exceeded their authority," he wrote, when they sought Trodden's opinion. The Commission's duty is limited by law to "the ministerial function of ascertaining whether the procedural requirements for submitting an initiative petition have been met," he stated. Judge Mitchell gave the Commissioners just 48 hours to do their job because they had already wrongly wasted so much crucial time. Eight people worked through Columbus Day in order to comply with the court order...