Word: curleyism
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...another occasion Gov. James Michael Curley appeared in silk stockings, knee britches, a powdered wig, and a three-cornered hat with flowing plume...
When University marshals obo?ted to his costume, the story goes, Curley whipped out a copy of the Statutes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which prescribed proper dress for the occasion and claimed that he was the only person at the ceremony properly dressed...
...Died. John B. Hynes, 72, Massachusetts Democrat who in 1949 defeated James M. Curley for mayor of Boston to finish off one of the nation's most powerful big-city machines; of a heart attack; in Boston. First appointed acting mayor by the Governor and the state legislature for five months in 1947 while Curley was in jail, Hynes defeated the Boston boss in his own right two years later; he went on to serve until 1960, giving the city good, honest government and inaugurating a vast, urgently needed urban-renewal program...
...jail sick or hale." Time shrugged, "Jim Curley still seemed to have official Boston by the tail." Curley, clearly had been enshrined...
THERE WERE no ticker-tape parades for George Brady. There were no speeches by his friends at the State House. Canonization does not work that way in Boston. It is a narrative process, achieved by legendary stories handed down through the generations. I first learned about Curley at my grandmother's knee. Brady may have to take the same route...