Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Michael Curley, battling, colorful politician of old, and Mayor John B. Hynes, City Hall career man, will contend for the Boston mayorship in November as a result of primary elimination elections yesterday...
Late tabulations had Hynes in first place with 98,194 votes; Curley, second with 70,754; and, trailing far behind, Joseph F. Timilty and Thomas J. O'Brien, with 14,188 and 1,337 votes respectively...
Boston will pick from five candidates in its mayoralty race. The two principles are present Mayor John B. Hynes, who has been backed since his first election two years ago by many Boston reform groups, and former Mayor James Michael Curley, who served a term in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, for mail fraud...
Tradition points toward Curley's victory since he has always won an election after a defeat in the preceding one. But political analysts point to the fact that Curley's once powerful political machine has lost much of its might since the colorful leader took control of Boston at the beginning of this century...
...Mass for Eddie Collins was held at the Church of the Advent yesterday. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, Will Harridge, president of the American League, and Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, two of Collins' teammates in the $100,000 infield, were pall bearers. Mayor Hynes, former Governor Curley, and other notables were present...