Word: curleyism
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Robert A. Curley '46, 23, Dorchester, Dudley Hall, Dudley Athletic Secretary, House baseball...
They were: Seniors Robert B. Ogrean '44, Michael J. DeLeo '45, and James J. Sullivan '47; and Robert A. Curley '46, who is of Junior standing...
Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...venerable Frederick W. Cook, Republican, who has been Secretary of State perennially since 1921. Or loyalty can propel a man into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...
Through it all, the larger cities in the state remain Democratic. The metropolitan machines, like Curley's in Boston, return a vote as solid as Mississippi's, with methods considerably more subtle. Some urban Congressional districts haven't gone Republican since the turn of the century; others couldn't go Democratic without either electoral revolution or mass migration...