Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayors, it would seem, are definitely misleading persons. When the mayors of 84 towns and cities in Massachusetts met in Boston last Saturday and tried to be coherent on the matter of the $100,000,000 public works program sponsored by Governor-elect James M. Curley, the impression they gave to gentlemen of the metropolitan press was remarkable in its many-sidedness...
Massachusetts. Onetime Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston with the enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...
After the recent protrusion upon the cod-fish commonwealth of Hon. James M. (Five-Cent) Curley, there should be few, indeed, who care to dispute Dr. Wilson's suggestion that it is high time for those who dispense knowledge in the public school system to begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush...
Inspired by the symphonic orchestration of some rare specimens of the Dunster-bird which appeared at the game attired in Curley-for-Governor banners, baby bonnets and false whiskers, the Dunster House football team rose up to halt the Lowell-men on their title march by tying them 0-0. The game was characterized by long gains on both sides, but both teams lacked a scoring punch...
Outside the hall, beyond range of the speakers, the air is cool. A streetlight gleams on the building next the Curley headquarters. A paint-flaked sign proclaims the name of the building outside the Curley front door; "Hibernia Bank...