Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a fight with Boston's notorious Mayor Curley, Gruening was forced to resign as managing editor of the Boston Traveller. Then he edited the failing Boston Journal. Later he went to Manhattan to find out what was the matter with Frank Munsey's New York Sun. His findings were not appreciated; he decided that Munsey was causing all the trouble...
Died. The Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, 67, Irish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington, outspoken foe of movies, Nazis and Communists (he caused a 1941 press furor when he said: "We of the U.S. are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
Kirkland-ss, Winters; 3b, Higgins; p, Harrison; c, Gilpatrick; 1f, Rosinus; cf, Glynn; rf, Gunby; 1b, Clifton; 2b, Zahn. Dudley-c, Bishop; 2b, Boyle; ss, Coughlin; 3b Ryan; 1f, Woods; 1b, Panarese; rf, Gourzis; c, Fraser; p. Curley...
...lineups: Eliot: 3b, Johnson, Shapera; 1b, Crumrine; ss, Robb; c, Farmer; cf, Eckelberry; lf, Hubbell; 2b, Bartle; rf, Crichton, Murphy; p, Young, Cobb. Dudley--2b, Yaffe; 1b, Panarese; p. Curley; ss, Ryan; c, Bishop; lf, Woods; cf, Fraser; 3b, McGraff; rf, Nasarium...
According to the Boston Fireman's Band, marathoner Yun Bok Su wasn't the only foreigner to steal the local spotlight at Boston's Patriots Day celebrations. Traditional parade performers, the fireman's band smouldered with rage when the University music-makers got George Curley...