Word: curleyism
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...headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
...forward into the breach and, in the true spirit of James Michael Curley, re-elect the Senator in 1970 and forget the rest...
With two out and Hurley on first, Harvard's fortunes appeared hopeless. But B.C. pitcher Jim Curley walked Dan DeMichele and Pete Varney on nine pitches to load the bases...
...most fitting that the City Hall of Boston have character and independence. After all, the Mayor inherits his office from such men as James Michael Curley...
...others had departed. But none of them has held the grudge, particularly since O'Brien joined Robert Kennedy's staff last spring. A hotelkeeper's son from Springfield, Mass., O'Brien acquired his taste for Democratic politics as a boy orator campaigning for James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston. His early tactical work for former Governor Foster Furcolo and then for John Kennedy formed the rich expertise that was later embodied in the "O'Brien Manual," a 70-page codification of all his political know...