Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nominee Curley has referred to Nominee Lodge as "a sweet boy with an illustrious name," intimated that he will be sorry to beat such a nice lad but "you can't send a boy on a man's errand. ' Boy or man, Cabot Lodge has run his political errands effectively in the past year. Driving about the State, sometimes traveling 1,000 miles a week, he showed the people of Massachusetts a friendly manner, a warm smile, proved himself a first rate speaker...
Last week at the polls Cabot Lodge's legislative record on economy and taxation, reinforced by his thorough campaign, carried him to an easy victory with more votes than were polled by his own three opponents and Governor Curley combined...
...Massachusetts State Federation of Labor has endorsed Curley for Senator, because Curley made an ex-president of the Federation Chairman of the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration...
...Labor's tacit approval. Unless the Democratic machine can keep the name of Senator Coolidge's son-in-law Robert Greenwood off the November ballot as an independent, the Governor will be at a distinct disadvantage. Many an observer of the Massachusetts contest thought that Nominee Curley was more likely to beat himself than Cabot Lodge...
...flags flying over their respective Class assemblies, began to march four abreast to the exposed and sopping seats of the Tercentenary Theatre. From the broad portico of Widener Library to their equally sopping seats on the stage filed the President of Harvard, Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' Senior Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence, 62 foreign and domestic scholars who were to receive honorary degrees. Also on hand was a Federal Commission authorized by Public Resolution No. 88 of the last Congress. At its head, in silk hat and cutaway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 walked...