Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief victory pulled off by old-line orthodox Democrats was the beating of young Representative Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, who helped draft the Social Security Act, by onetime Irish Catholic Governor James Michael Curley, four times defeated in his race for Congress...
Congressman Thomas H. Eliot conceded last night the Democratic nomination for congressman in the eleventh district to former Governor James M. Curley. The other results as last reported for 735 out of 1,788 precincts were: Republican Senatorial Nomination Lodge 54,865 Crocker 8,098 Democratic Senatorial Nomination Casey 62,198 Fitzgerald 49,078 Lee 20,976 Coakley 9,232 Democratic Gubernatorial Nomination Putnam 73,998 Kelly...
...importance of seeing to it that they have a chance to vote for a good man on November third. In Cambridge the Democratic primary is particularly important, not only because a Democrat always wins, but also because the issue is clear cut. Neither of the major candidates, James Michael Curley ond Thomas H. Eliot, need introduction. Curley, who is still returning to Boston $500 a week of "borrowed" funds, is strong in Charlestown and stands a very good chance of taking the all-important primary. Eliot, who is finishing his second year in Congress, where he is known...
...will make the trip with Coach Rene Peroy. In the foils division will be Captain Gaeta, Don Van Roosen, and Don Edwards. Martin Singer, John Duke, Curley Johnson, and Bob Miller will handle epee while Arthur du Bois, Carl Kulmam, and Harold Tobey will fence saber...
...have no more confidence in Stalin than I have in Hitler. [He] is quite capable of turning on the United States, were that to suit his purposes. More than one dog has bitten the hand that fed it." This outburst from Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley, the spiritual leader of Catholics in Baltimore and Washington, made big headlines in the press, both sacred and profane. The Archbishop spoke before Hitler's little yellow friends made a treacherously planned attack...