Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that the smiling boyish face of the grandson of the late Henry Cabot Lodge will appear in his grandfather's place in the U. S. Senate. It was still more striking because Henry Cabot Lodge II, 34, not only defeated foxy old Governor James M. Curley, but successfully strode through the Democratic landslide that smashed many an old-time Republican...
...Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold, Boston, won it and the State by a plurality that was just...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...
...loomed high even above Roosevelt's triumph was the utter and complete confusion of the forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...
State Vote FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR (859 precinets out of 1765) Lodge (Republican) 401,775 Curley (Democratic) 351,229 FOR GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS (356 precinets out of 1765) Haigls (Republican) 390,861 Hurley (Democratic...