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WASHINGTON, January 13--James M. Curley, colorful Boston politician and two associates today lost an appeal from mail fraud convictions growing out of war contract deals. The U. S. court of appeals ruled against them in a 2 to 1 decision...
...Curley's attorney immediately declared they will ask a rehearing, automatically staying the sentence of six to 18 months in jail and $1,000 fine. Curley, former Congressman, governor, and several times mayor of Boston, said at his home an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court if necessary...
Dudley: le, McGrath; lt, Gourzis; lg, Waldron, Busalacchi; c, Binder; rg, Nazarian; rt, Marshall; re, McDermott; backs, Nanigian, Billings, Doyle, Curley, Gilman, Whittemore...
...Stuart Art Gallery also carries an extensive stock of originals and prints and does considerable framing work. Their exhibition this month is the series of paintings of the "Temptation of Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...
...Common pigeons and the suburban firemen who are forever rescuing treed cats. Some of the cartoons are local jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank panels and a postscript : "No grounds for libel here...