Word: curleyism
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...said that he won the 1921 election against fellow Roman Catholic John R. Murphy by accusing Murphy of eating a roast-beef sandwich, on a Friday, at a restaurant named Thompson's Spa. But many of Boston's Irish and Italians loved James Michael Curley for his charm and his chicanery, as well as for the free hand he had with public funds on behalf of the poor. Curley was famous for having insisted that the scrubwomen in city hall be given long-handled brushes, the better to spare their knees...
When he died at age 83 in 1958, Curley had run Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
Sophomores Don Pompan and Jim Curley will take the A bracket spots with sophomore Bob Horne joining Shaw for the B draw. In the C slots surprise senior Dick Arnos and freshman John Bridgeland piled up challenge victories to earn the singles positions...
There he rides the coattails of a rising Boston politician named James Michael Curley. Because the Curley machine needs Boston's Italian North End in its pocket, Brady arranges a pardon for a notorious Sicilian Mafioso named Gennaro Anselmo. Dishonesty continues to lure Brady: he builds an insurance empire through which his new friend Gennaro sluices his racketeer's profits. Carroll's message is an old one: with such mortally dangerous friends, one needs no enemies. Time and again, the man who won his first fame by setting up an ambush is himself waylaid by his friends...
...Truman book, Conflict and Crisis, and has pressed it on his friend Charles Kirbo. His private pantheon has gained the likes of Astronomer Carl Sagan, Country Singer Larry Gatlin, House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has sought more information about John Kennedy and James Michael Curley...