Word: curleyism
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More important than all these considerations, Truman had done Boston's ex-convict Mayor James M. Curley a favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...
State of Mind traces the parabolic development of the Boston mind-from Puritan bedrock to the brilliant flights of the Emersonian era, and towards the final settling in the dreary marshes of the Mayor Curley epoch. The book ends on "the late George Apley's" symptomatic, harassed query about "a certain doctor named Sigmund Freud," who seemed to proper Bostonians a latter-day Emblem of Hell...
...Curley and Ted Williams weren't enough to make any city happy, Boston is now going all out in municipal coddling with a big, snazzy parking area under the Common, and more than ever it seems as though the College is on the wrong side of the Charles. Here, the battle for car space is fierce and unrelenting. Local policemen are tossing off tickets to violators faster than candidates for the Republican nomination utter cliches. But across the river, in what is swiftly becoming paradise on earth, Model Ts will nestle side by side with Cadillacs, in ample space...
Boston reacted to this appointment with monumental indifference. Two weeks later Jim Curley found a job for another ex-convict. This time it was a ruddy, amiable lawyer (once suspended) named Charles H. McGlue, who had been a Curley campaign manager, state Democratic chairman and head of the state Ballot Law Commission, which irons out ballot disputes. In 1939, McGlue had been convicted of federal income-tax evasion, spent five months in jail. Curley decided that McGlue was just the man to be assistant chief of the city's licensing division (at a modest...
...attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...