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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong Yankee democrat from Springfield. The fight was bitter because Curley feared that Ely, with his popularity throughout the State, would set up a very strong personal machine. Late in the Convention, Fitzgerald withdrew and Ely became nominee for governor in a year which promised success to almost any democrat...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

...South Boston. It was an environment of native Irishmen, hod-carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning to be dishonest. Curley, at the outset of his career, fell in the middle. He was a politician, and therefore cunning, almost from the beginning, but in contrast to the previous ward leaders he demanded that his constituents get something for their vote. Eventually, after numerous intermediate positions of ward leadership, this policy led him to his first term as mayor...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

...great difficulty with the actual performance of these works was that the men frequently destroyed this masterly. Beethoven made the cello part the more important occasionally, made the two parts equal the rest of the time, and almost never put the piano into prominence. Unfortunately, Wednesday night the cello part was only occasionally equal to that of the piano and frequently less prominent...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...Almost a full year of preparation has gone into the local celebration of the German poet's birth. The German Department's bow to Goethe is one of the last in a succession of praise and reminiscence all over the world during the past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebration of Goethe's Birth Starts Tonight | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Chair for Legal Medicine. At that time only a handful of men were trained in the art of legal medicine. Soon State and Boston police began calling on the infant Department for help in investigating unexplained deaths. Through the years co-operation grew, and today the Department looks into almost 1000 cases annually for the police...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Legal Medicine Probes Deaths, Gets Results | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

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