Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts. The campaign had not begun-there was no point trying to interest the voters until Boston got over its World Series (see SPORT). But the key to the election is Boston and its agile Mayor Jim Curley, who dislikes old (73) Senator David Ignatius Walsh almost as much as he does 44-year-old Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. If Jim Curley does not line up Boston's machine and heavy Catholic vote for jowly Dave Walsh, a Republican trend among independents could easily put Lodge over. In any event, Lodge has a good chance to return...
Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...venerable Frederick W. Cook, Republican, who has been Secretary of State perennially since 1921. Or loyalty can propel a man into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...
...once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican Herald works hard not to offend anybody in Democratic Boston. It prides itself on an occasional burst of virility. Five days after Mayor James Curley was convicted of fraud last January, the Herald was the only Boston paper to rise up and say (in a carefully modulated voice) that it was perhaps a little regretful that a city of 770,816 should be run from a jail...
Dudley went through the regular season and the tournament undefeated, led by pitchers Bob Curley and Marty Greeley and sluggers Ed Haley and Dave Bishop. The Gold Coasters had difficulty fielding a regulation sized team during the initial weeks of the campaign, but Coach Dave O'Mara tapped the Varsity resources in his House to come through with a winning nine in the tournament, sparked by hurler Frank Holt who registered two victories against no losses...