Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Intercollegiate League championship. Though little is said about it, and Coach John F. Carr, Jr. '28 does not stop to think about it, the eleven this year has one of the best chances in history to win the championship. Jack Carr, who is also adeptly running Mr. James Michael Curley's campaign in Cambridge, has been gradually building up a squad of fine material. He is getting results. Take a look at the records of the "Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association of America...
...Practical Politics Committee, which holds its first meeting tonight, is attempting to show the undergraduate this other side. It possesses an objective; that of helping to defeat former Mayor Curley. In accomplishing this aim, it offers volunteers not only the chance to see how a political campaign and politicians work, but also the chance to join in the fight through organizing rallies and doing field work. A volunteer may find that here as well as in a political club, he can waste time, but at least he will learn something about the inefficiency and graft which deliver mortal blows...
James Michael Curley also wanted to be Governor of Massachusetts. A charter member of the State's For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago Club, that jolly, apple-cheeked Irishman was routed at the Democratic convention which selected General Cole last June. That reverse did not daunt Boston's three-time Mayor, a veteran of more than 20 years in the city's political Wild West Show. All things to all men, Jim Curley took the stump, talked tough to tough audiences, talked polite to polite conservatives. Above all, he talked New Deal, of which he proclaimed himself the uncompromising...
...Nominee Curley's opponent, simultaneously chosen by Republicans, is Lieut.-Governor Caspar Griswold Bacon, son of Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State Robert Bacon, brother of Long Island's socialite Congressman Robert Low Bacon...
Congratulations again, Mr. Curley, to you and to the intelligent Massachusetts Democracy which nominated you. Daily Record...