Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some wrestled indignant dowagers for the possession of seats from which to view the three-hour Centennial parade. In the official reviewing stand were Maurice Tobin, governor of Massachusetts; James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston; and Lieut.-Gen. Courtney L. Hodges, famed commander of the First Army...
...Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...
...reason Critic "Loughlin" had her Irish up was James Michael Curley, the city's mayor. Boston recently gave a brass-band welcome to Mayor Curley after he had been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back...
When Mayor Curley ordered some revisions in "Flamingo Road" (on the ground that it was "an affront to the good people of Boston during the Lenten season"), there were plenty of good people of Boston who thought. His Honor had ulterior motives in discrediting the play. About the only thing noteworthy in the new Rowland Stebbins production is that Curley's critics are probably right: "Flamingo Road" is full of the sort of dirty Southern politics that some people say is paralleled in Boston...
Congressman James Michael Curley had scarcely resumed his job as mayor of Boston-after drawing a six to 18 months' prison sentence for mail fraud-before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...