Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...
...elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several eligibles, but the Grand Ballroom resounded with self-congratulation and party hope, and plenty of Republican renascents held forth. They were toastmastered by Illinois' heroic young C. Wayland ("Curley") Brooks, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York...
...weakness of the anti-oath faction which had attempted to push the bill through to a third reading yesterday came as an unexpected blow to labor, church, and educational leaders who have pressed for repeal during the Curley law's four years of existence...
Boston's distinguished elite, including ex-Governor James M. Curley, last night noisily applauded (and noisily repeated jokes to deaf companions) as John Holden presented Gertrude Lawrence in the gay, smooth-running comedy "Susan and God" at the Shubert Theatre...
...James G. Reardon, 37. In 1935 he was superintendent of schools in Adams, Mass. (pop. 12,697). Then famed old Education Commissioner Payson Smith, who had served with distinction for 18 years, was ousted after he had refused to give jobs to friends of newly-elected Governor James Michael Curley. Governor Curley asked Louis Joseph Gallagher, president of Boston College (Roman Catholic) to suggest a bright young Catholic for Commissioner. Dr. Gallagher chose Mr. Reardon, who had twice flunked State examinations for a superintendent's license...