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...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...
Trodden and DeGuglielmo's three council supporters did not accept Dunphy's explanation. One of the councillors--Daniel J. Hayes Jr. moved unsuccessfully to dismiss Dunphy...
Hayes recalled his prediction, made the night DeGuglielmo was fired, that "Heads will roll within two weeks." After charging Crane with conducting a "personal vendetta." Hayes introduced a motion to remove Dunphy "for his own sake...
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...
Each of the past two City Managers solved this problem in his own way. Most observers considered Crane and Curry as one political unit. DeGuglielmo--a former councillor--made most of the major decisions of his administration; his council supporters merely ratified them. What the Council-Manager relationship will be under the next administration is still an open question...