Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a fine St. Patrick's Day flourish, Boston's four-time Mayor James M. Curley last week confirmed an open secret: he will be a candidate for re-election next November. It is simply a matter of civic duty, said the 76-year-old Jim Curley, who kept right on bossing the city when he was sent to prison for mail fraud in 1947. "I have been mayor in four crises and have overcome what appeared insuperable obstacles and know that I can do it again...
...sense of guilt, as if they had sneaked off to a movie in the middle of a business day. But last week, as millions sat glued to the telecasts of the Manhattan hearings of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, televiewing was for once accompanied by a glowing sense of civic purpose...
Days passed, and still Barcelona s staunch people walked. After one stormy meeting at the city hall, Governor Baeza Alegria announced: "What we need is a civic example from the highest." Out he marched, and boarded a streetcar to set an example for strikebreakers. But he rode alone. Eventually his trolley bumped into a stone barricade, and he gave...
Leverett has its own Spring weekend coming up: derbies on the Charles. Its Civic Improvement Society chisels fossils from the showers and surveys the House's trapeziform dining hall. On the bulletin boards, blatant posters describe sports victories as "Pookahs Paw Listless Lowell...
This can be credited to the dogged police enforcement of the anti-sing law and to people like Jim Cronin, who takes his civic responsibilities seriously...