Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youthful Manager Alfred Reginald Allen, a shrewd peacemaker in Philadelphia since his appointment year ago, figures out the Orchestra's payroll which amounts to about $10,400 per week, exclusive of Stokowski's salary. Invaluable to the Orchestra is bald-headed Marshall ("Curley") Betz, who acts as librarian and general baggage master. Marshall Betz allied himself with the Philadelphia band the same day that Stokowski did 24 years ago, understands the conductor's and the players' moods. With the current tour Betz faced his stiffest undertaking. He is responsible for the many scores that...
Sure it's a swell oath. You made it up, didn't you? And you made it pretty plain what the score was going to be in this teaching racket. Don't forget, Curley told you it was just what the State and the people needed...
...Boston last week Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley told a gathering of Democrats that he had spent $115,000 out of his own pocket to help carry Massachusetts for Roosevelt in 1932, had since been rewarded with not one Federal job to add to his patronage list. Declaring himself still a Roosevelt supporter, the bluff, red-faced Irish Governor, who is now a candidate for U. S. Senator, wistfully observed that it was one of the tragedies of politics that one was not always able to pay off political obligations...
...candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis...
...ready to pick heroes and villains. No. 1 hero was Massachusetts' longtime (1917-35) Commissioner of Education Payson Smith, no friend of his State's widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...