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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Housing and city maintenance are the two big departments in which the services rendered are far too little and the cost far too great for the city. The community could stand thousands more low cost housing units and still not thoroughly fill the demand for the slum clearance. Worse than this, the city is paying now on the average of $80 per month to subsidize each of the present units. Both McDonough and Hynes have constantly attacked Curley on the housing problem--accusing him of allowing privileged families who have incomes above the specified ceiling to remain in the units...
...more interested in the wards from 10 to 22, Brighton, the Roxbuys, Roslindale and parts of Dorcester. The fact that McDonouglf is working against Curley may very well help Hynes. But, to balance that, whatever votes Oakes takes will come from Haynes and probably not from the other two...
...course the candidates have favorite theories about their opponents. Both McDonough and Hynes call Curley a jailbird and point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks that Hynes is actually backed by Curley to defeat McDonough. Curley calls Hynes a fusion candidate, a political dupe of the Republicans on Beacon Hill...
...city's charter from Plan B to Plan A. Under the new plan, the city council would be reduced from 22 to 9 members and each election year a run-off primary would be held to reduce the field of candidates for mayor, councilman and school committeeman to two. Most important, the new charter would permit the council to override the veto of the mayor on all bills except loans and appropriations, by a two-thirds vote. Since this is the only referendum on the ballot, there is a very strong likelihood that it will be passed. Both McDonough...
Next Tuesday, it will all be over. There'll be a burst of applause for the winner, in the Parker House lobby. The sound apparatus will be taken off the trucks and the city will quiet down for another two years...