Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only slightly more surprising to its citizens than the results of the Democratic primary vote for Governor, cast the day before. Beaten by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for the Senate two years ago, beaten last year in a try for a fourth term as Mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley was supposed to be "all washed up." But political weathermen knew that Governor Charles F. Hurley, since he succeeded Mr. Curley in the State House two years ago, had been exercising an unusual talent for repelling people and making enemies. His downfall was forecast when he failed to put over...
...help you," joked jovial James M. Curley when a local pressure group including three University students and two from Radcliffe told him the colleges they attended...
...Catching Curley at the psychological moment when he was writing the speech which he delivered to the Democratic State Convention Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge quintet attempted to persuade the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Convention...
...Curley Was Distracted...
...group represents the Middle Class voting block which Curley has reached only slightly, but which might be a valuable asset in the coming campaign for governor...