Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army-Harvard football game will not be played at the Yankee Stadium for the benefit of the unemployed of New York and Boston, it became known yesterday following a meeting between President Lowell and Mayor James M. Curley of Boston. At the same time President Lowell declined to have contributions made towards unemployment relief from the proceeds of the Harvard-Dartmouth or Harvard-Yale games...
...Mayor, in his visit to President Lowell's office at 10 o'clock, was acting in behalf of New York authorities. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, and F. J. Taylor, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment sent a telegram to Mayor Curley on September 29, requesting his cooperation in negotiations with University authorities...
Henri Cochet, of France, world's ablest tennis amateur, confided to friends that he was going to turn professional. They expected him to sign a contract (like William Tatem Tilden II, Vincent Richards, Karel Kozeluh) with fat Jack Curley, who is now scouting Europe for wrestling talent...
...eight residents of North America have been canonized (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), there are as yet no native-born U. S. saints. In 1880 the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop of Baltimore, began the movement to have Mother Seton canonized; his successor Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley continued it. In 1911 the first petition was sent to Rome. Since then the case has not been perceptibly advanced...
...first man home ever has the advantage and Mr. Curley has handled the question of the Legion d'Honneur with diplomatic tact...