Word: curleyism
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...reason Critic "Loughlin" had her Irish up was James Michael Curley, the city's mayor. Boston recently gave a brass-band welcome to Mayor Curley after he had been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back...
When Mayor Curley ordered some revisions in "Flamingo Road" (on the ground that it was "an affront to the good people of Boston during the Lenten season"), there were plenty of good people of Boston who thought. His Honor had ulterior motives in discrediting the play. About the only thing noteworthy in the new Rowland Stebbins production is that Curley's critics are probably right: "Flamingo Road" is full of the sort of dirty Southern politics that some people say is paralleled in Boston...
Congressman James Michael Curley had scarcely resumed his job as mayor of Boston-after drawing a six to 18 months' prison sentence for mail fraud-before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...
...using the mails to defraud, Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston was sentenced this week to serve six to 18 months in prison, pay a $1,000 fine. The Mayor, who is also a Massachusetts Congressman, and an old hand at dodging the rap, quailed: "I have never begged for mercy in my life. ... I don't do it now. But I do ask for justice." But he wasn't beaten yet-until he has taken a Supreme Court appeal, he will remain on hand to help govern his town & country...
...past, Jim Curley's conviction would not stop him from being Massachusetts' most agile and successful politician. He had once been jailed for violation of the Civil Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...