Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curley Acts as Mayor...
...past three decades, the dominant figure in the scene has been James Michael Curley--he never leaves out the Michael. By statute, he may not succeed himself, but for the most part he has allowed Republicans to fill in the gaps so that no rival strong-man can appear in the majority party. The recent judgment against him by the Federal courts has not dampened the ardor of his adherents or his strength at the polls. When Curley returned from the courts, he was hailed as a hero and the man of the people by Bostonians. One of the first...
...Boston the same right. In spite of a defeat last year in the legislature, the President of the League holds high hopes for her bill this year. She points out that before the legal red tape of petition and referendum can be brushed aside three years will have clapsed. Curley's term as mayor will have expired, so that Plan E cannot be damned in Boston by Placing an anti-Curley label...
Graft and patronage have been a part of Boston since before the time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
Attacks on James Michael Curley, Lyons has found out in the past week, are taken as a personal affront by the Irish Catholie nucleus of his strength. The cold welcome they received on arrival in Boston from the Emerald Isle has knit them into a tight political and sociological unit. Reformers are dismayed to find that this mass of voters feels its security rises and falls with the fortunes of its champion...