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involved in a number of controversies involving the hiring and firing of employees. One such controversy involved the Lowell School
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health. Lupien was sworn in by the city clerk soon after the vote was taken. In
September 1953, the Lowell retirement board ruled that Lupien, who would turn 70 in December, must quit by December 31 of that year, citing a provision in the retirement law dealing with employees who began their initial employment with the city after the age of 60. On November 10, 1953, the City Council voted five to three to remove Lupien from office in order to give the next city manager plenty of time to prepare the city's budget for the following year.
237:. He began working at the age of 14, shoeing mules at the Metropolitan Water Works. After about six months, he was given a job swinging a sledgehammer and was later promoted to a pick and shovel crew. He later worked in construction as a concrete mixer and as a shoe packer for a shoe manufacturing company. Lupien also played semipro baseball while working and attending school.
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school committee more than two decades earlier. He sought to eliminate the practice of job selling in the state civil service and pledged to hire the best person, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. He was praised for breathing new life into the civil service system, but was also
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