Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curley campaigners were counting heavily on making an impressive showing in this preliminary test to bring about the former mayor's political comeback. Now 77 years old, Curley claims this is his last election batle...
...Timilty, Curley's campaign manager in the 1949 election and a former police commissioner under Curley, was put into the race, according to political observers, to split. Hynes' vote in certain sections of the city. O'Brien, a progressive party candidate, has run with marked unsuccess for political positions in the past...
Hynes upset Curley in the 1949 elections by a vote of 124,308 to 115,514. A former city clerk under Curley, Hynes cut deeply into Curley's once-powerful wards...
Comparison of present and past elec-statistics seem to indicate that Curley has lost much of his drawing power. This time, his once-mighty machine did not pile up huge votes for him--even in his home districts. To veteran Boston political observers, this indicates that Hynes will have a very good chance of defeating Curley for the second time...
Elected mayor of Boston in 1912, 1921, 1929, and 1935, Curley lost the mayorship in 1917, 1937, 1941, and 1949. He has also served five terms in the United States House of Representatives and one term as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1947, while a member of Congress, he served a term of five months in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecti-cut for mail fraud...