Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have scope on your page. Some-one has to support Roosevelt, Curley, and my especial follower and cohort Al Capone. Let me write a column. Let me give your readers the Devil's case...
...Worcester Governor Curley of Massachusetts popped aboard to regale the President with friendly conversation. A few minutes after the special's arrival in Boston's freight yards, police cars sounding sirens pulled up in front of No. 2 Holyoke Place, Cambridge, home of the Fly. A crowd came running at the sound, packed close around the big car from which Franklin Roosevelt emerged. "Boooh!" shouted voices in the rear. "Boo! Boo!" Seldom in his life had Franklin Roosevelt been booed. He looked straight ahead as he was helped toward the door of his Club...
Even in this day of increased governmental control in schools and colleges, Governor Curley feels that "it is impossible to overestimate the value of endowed universities in modern life because these institutions have the funds to undertake investigations impossible for state or private colleges. Extensive research would not be feasible if it were not for endowments" he continued...
With regard to the results obtained from the CRIMSON-Herald-Tribune Poll Governor Curley smiled again as he said, "The recent CRIMSON poll predicting the defeat of Roosevelt proves one thing conclusively, for Harvard prognostications like those of Washington are never right. It means that Roosevelt will carry at least 40 states in the next election...
...Governor Curley concluded his audience with a discussion of the question of political enemies and the statements that they make, saying, "the picadors and pettifoggers and pretenders to the Royal Purple Throne in Massachusetts, having become obsessed with the idea that I am the entire Democratic Party, I have this day designated a committee to answer these lackeys...