Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Staley College of the Spoken Word, Inc. (Boston) Alumnus James Michael Curley, Governor of Massachusetts...
...with planning. Included among these are Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who has ultimate control of all physical planning in the United States through the National Resources Committee, Herbert Hoover, famed among planners for his work in the fields of housing and zoning while Secretary of Commerce, and James M. Curley, who has directly attached to his office one of the best of the 46 state planning boards...
...jumped New York's Representative Edward Curley. "I am reminded," said he, "of the story told of that famous French philosopher and statesman, Voltaire, who in his dying days, during one of his sicknesses, said to his physician with respect to this bill: 'You are trying to convey drugs about which you know little into a body about which you know less to cure a disease about which you know nothing...
Article 48 of section 2 of the State Constitution states clearly that initiative and referendum petitions do not apply to the appointment, qualification, tenure and removal of judges, but yet Mr. Curley feels that by subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday, "The use of the threat to do this if you don't is old stuff with the Governor and I hope that this specific case where he has made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have...
...instructed him to "lay down," lose the match. These orders he had faithfully executed until last March. Then, indignant at having to lose all the time, he disobeyed his dressing room order by pinning Champion Danno O'Mahoney in a world championship match. At this testimony Promoter Jack Curley, who with five others rules the wrestling world today, exploded. Such a thing as a "-fixed" match, he yelped, was unknown...