Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that marriage is a "sacred ceremony," Massachusetts' pious Roman Catholic Governor James Michael Curley last fortnight forbade justices of the peace to perform that ceremony (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week the Chicago Church Federation (300 Protestant ministers) was agitated over civil marriage as performed in their city. They learned that in Marriage Court in the County Building a couple could be united in ten seconds, by paying $5 and replying affirmatively to the question "Do you take this woman (or man) whose right hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded wife (or husband)?" This ceremony was denounced...
...Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of civil marriages. Last week Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, super-devout Roman Catholic, ordered justices of the peace in that State, who hold their jobs at his pleasure, to cease & desist from performing marriage ceremonies, even for Protestants. The fact that certain J. P.'s are legally empowered to mumble a few words over any couple that pays $10 did not bother the pious Governor. He declared: "This sacred ceremony should be performed only by clergymen. If any marriages are performed by justices who come before me for renewal...
...road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston College Council of Catholic Organizations, scuttled over to the City Hall. There he lodged a loud protest with Mayor Frederick William Mansfield, a devout Catholic like Massachusetts' new Governor James Michael Curley...
Massachusetts. Last fortnight a filibuster blocked election of a President of the Senate, an official who traditionally administers the oath of office to the incoming Governor. After waiting a day, bluff James Michael Curley had himself sworn in by the Secretary of State. When the Senate finally chose its temporary presiding officer to be President last week, that official fainted dead away in the midst of reading the report of his election...
...seemed to one local paper that the officials were unbounded in their enthusiasm to get at Curley's project. "Boston Takes Lead In Curley 100 Million Dollar Job Plan." "Mayors of State Eager To Push Public Works," were headlines for the columns of the Boston "Advertiser" front page. The Boston "Globe," with gentlemanly discretion, intimated that the convention had not been highly in favor of the Curley scheme thus: "Mayors Shy On Big Work Loans." "84 Communities Would Consider If U. S. Pays Half." Courageous and forthright was the Boston "Sunday Herald." "Mayors Reject Curley's $100,000,000 Housing...