Word: curley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday the Boston vox populi exercised its quadrennial function and spoke out in favor of Mr. Curley for Mayor. Not entirely encouraging, this declaration; the believer in democracy may well question the practicability of government by the people...
With Pelletier out of the race, the Boston mayoralty contest has narrowed down to a duel between John R. Murphy and James M. Curley; notwithstanding the fact that there are two others in the field, O'Connor and Baxter. The Curley-Coakley combination is to Boston what Tammany is to New York; in this election they hope to eust the Good Government administration that has existed under Mayor Peters, substituting for it a regime such as existed when Mr. Curley was in power four years ago. Mr. Curley's public record has not been marked by any particularly brilliant service...
...renewing the fight for honest government over the interests of politicians. In New York, the old story is being retold--Tammany, represented by Hylan and Hearst, against the more disinterested element. In Boston it is the Good Government group, which really stands up for better government, against the doubtful Curley-Pelletier group...
...babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information...
...Beard, H. H. Berman, E. Bernat, L. F. Butchmann, P. W. Bolster, J. C. Bolton, B. A. Botking, R. H. Bowen, A. T. Branigap, C. W. Brown, W. J. Burke Jr., John Caswell Jr., W. G. Chick, H. C. Clark, H. C. Clark, G. Cropmton Jr., T. H. Curley, W. F. Davidson, M. Davis, F. R. Dean, W. W. Dean, D. J. Dempsey Jr., C. E. Dickerson Jr., P. S. Dickson, E. Dongler, P. G. Doolin, D. J. Daggan, J. T. Dwyer...