Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman James M. Curley, setting out on a seven-week Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, received a nice going-away present. As he boarded the liner Italia last week, the announcement came that the President had granted him a "full and unconditional" pardon of two convictions for which he had served jail time. The pardon covered convictions for 1) fraudulently taking a letter-carrier examination for a friend in 1903 (60 days in jail), and 2) mail fraud in mulcting $60,000 from clients on the promise of getting them Government contracts...
...usual effect of such presidential pardons is to restore a convict's civil rights, but under the law of Massachusetts, Curley had not lost his rights. Nevertheless, from somewhere at sea, 75-year-old Jim Curley sent word to Harry Truman that he was "deeply grateful...
...Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications carried the story. By & large, the Boston press was best summed up by a proper Bostonian's remark: "For murder and rape, we can read the Boston papers. For the news, we read the New York Times...
Died. Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, and Leo Curley, 34, only daughter and eldest son of Massachusetts' ex-Governor James Michael Curley, longtime mayor (off & on) of Boston, the sixth and seventh of his nine children to die; she of a cerebral hemorrhage; he, the same day, of a heart attack, while making arrangements for his sister's funeral; in Boston...
...flurrying the patron curious enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley or codfish or Cunningham...