Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several men are working on a building code for New England, while others are on the Cambridge Planning Board and on Mayor Curley's Committee on Metropolitan Reorganization in still another type of city service is Professor Miller McClintock, member of the Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research, who is constantly serving Boston and Cambridge, as well as offering his advice to countless other cities and towns throughout the country...
Professor Beale, who is the chairman of Mayor Curley's Greater Boston committee, has recently returned from abroad where he made a careful study of the London borough system of municipal government. In telling of his findings in this research, Dr. Beale said, "I was very favorably impressed with the London system. Everyone seemed perfectly contented and with their metropolitan system of government, the English are able to keep the subsidiary cities and towns in existence and yet can serve the whole of them as a unit. You see, all of the various cities that combine to make...
Married. Margaret, 21, daughter of Senator & Mrs. James Couzens of Michigan; and William Jeffries Chewning, 25, Washington socialite bank clerk. Because she is a Catholic, he a Protestant, they had to get special dispensation from Archbishop Curley at Baltimore, whither they eloped...
...mile race for the Curley Cup, which was won by Ray Conger, of the Illinois A. C., N. P. Hallowell '32 gave evidence of promise. He was running in competition with three of the great runners of the country and finished a strong fourth. Though no official time was taken for Hallowell it was reported that he covered the ground in 4 minutes and 24 seconds; only two seconds slower than the winner...
Professor Beale, who has become engaged in this work through his presidency of Mayor Curley's Conference on Metropolitan Boston, will be supplanted in his position in the conference by Dr. R. D. Doten of the Economics department of M. I. T. In addition, Professor W. B. Munroe of Harvard, who is on sabbatical leave in California, is expected in Boston within a few days to assist at the conference...