Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop Roosevelt" movement last week focused on Massachusetts (36 votes). Fortnight ago Mr. Smith, despite his earlier statement that he would not contest for another nomination, allowed his name to go in for the primary. April 26. Boston's Mayor Curley, hot for Roosevelt, began hectoring the Brown Derby with telegraphic demands that, since New Hampshire had repudiated him, he withdraw from Massachusetts. Mr. Smith wired back that he did not consider the use of his name in the primary at odds with his no-candidate statement. Mayor Curley thereupon telegraphed Mr. Smith that he was "glad," published...
...Mayor Curley, sensible of this deficiency, has made the keys to Boston more than a pretty sentiment. He has builded his key in three parts, which together make a gesture of hospitality; and severally, prove to be a corkscrew, a pencil, and a comb. These adjuncts begin their work where other keys leave off. The corkscrew takes its guest past the portals to the very bosom the city, the pencil enshrines names and telephone numbers in his address-book, and the comb wishes him God-speed the morning after...
...could attend college examinations. They told newsmen that the victim had stepped in front of Walter's automobile, that Walter tried to swerve out of the way but was blocked by another car. The city toxicologist reported finding alcohol in the dead man's brain. In Boston Leo Curley, 16, son of Mayor James Michael Curley, had his driver's license revoked. Last month he was freed of charges after his automobile killed a woman...
Mike Cohen, pressagent to Promoter Jack Curley, Wrestler Londos' Manager, hastily interrupted...
...This is one game in the Stadium that Harvard can't lose," was Mayor James M. Curley's recommendation to Harvard students to attend tomorrow's charity game between Holy Cross and Boston College. He made this exclusive statement to the CRIMSON late last night...