Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most colorful but perhaps the least desirable of the candidates is James Michael Curley, who has been mayor of Boston three times in the past. The demagogic chicanery of this political band-master and his consistent hostility to what is fine and liberal need no recital here. Just how much injury he inflicted on the people of Boston during his last tenure of office will never be accurately known, for immediately following it he became Governor and gained control of the Finance Committee which was just beginning to investigate the Dolan case and one or two other irregularities that...
...Curley, son of the former Governor of Massachusetts, has returned this year to the haunts of his undergraduate days at Georgetown University, after his resignation last May from the Harvard Law School, it was learned here...
...Young Curley resigned under protest of certain statements made in one of his courses by Warren A. Seavey, professor of Law, which he considered derogatory to his father. His decision was not altered when Professor Seavey acepted entire responsibility for the affair...
...doing Curley received no credit for almost a year's work and must begin again his law work at Georgetown, from which he graduated...
Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden...