Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Questions like "Do I have to vote for only one? It would be so nice to give them all a chance," presented more serious difficulties, which, however, if insoluble, could be passed on to those in attitude was taken by an elderly woman who fortified herself by saying that "Curley has been in there too long. It was no use explaining that Hurley and Curley were not the same...
...Cats for Curley...
...person had often moved to a new home or was not in. One old man came to the door and eyed the visitor with a sea going against. Asked it he were Josephus Tootle he replied "Oi'm Curley man!" He had not corked up the door sufficiently with his legs, unfortunately, and before this enlightening interview had ended, 26 assorted children and cats had flowed through the openings and down the steps. They dissolved in to the atmosphere as quickly as they had come and the patriarch speak majestically "Dose my children. Dey Curley men, too," and shut...
With a heavy Republican vote registered in Massachusetts and throughout the nation, Leverett Saltonstall was elected Governor of Massachusetts over James M. Curley by a plurality that is expected to exceed 100,000. Elsewhere, Governor Lehman of New York was reelected but in other key states the Democrats suffered heavy losses. At 4 o'clock this morning Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio and Kansas had apparently returned to the Republican column...
Polling a surprisingly heavy vote in Boston, Leverett Saltonstall dealt former Governor James M. Curley a decisive defeat, and apparently carried most of the State's Republican slate with...