Word: curleyism
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...figures: the priest and the politician. The priest, astringently played by Barnard Hughes, is torn by a mixture of pity and contempt for his people, and he exerts his authority as though he were a bouncer in a perpetually unruly bar. The politician, an arm-twisting, Jim Curley-like charmer, played with resourceful guile by Tom Ahearne, has one key speech in which he punctuates a list of catastrophes with the words...
...seen one up this early since good old James Michael," (better known as Mayor Curley) one voter had observed approvingly at 7:20 a.m. at the Eggleston MTA station where Bellotti began his 18-hour...
...Originally, I wanted to be a politician," the cardinal says. "I used to make money speaking for politicians from the back of wagons. I spoke for Jim Curley. I spoke for the suffragettes and the anti-suffragettes-anyone who would pay me. This was all outdoors-that's how I developed this present style of talking indoors. Then the priest said, 'If you do any more speaking for politicians or any other cause, I'm never going to give you a letter to the seminary...
...welcomed the 1010 members of the Class of 1939 with a strong speech, asserting that the individual integrity and freedom of thought encouraged by a liberal education would help defeat the "dogmatic prophecies" of the European dictatorships. At the University Theater, Shirley Temple was starring in her latest movie, "Curley...
...intellectual isolation, authentic Irish genius was stunted; basic good instincts went strangely awry; and some of America's best-known rogues had Irish names. James M. Curley had wit, verve, and a burning sense of social injustice, but hardly any sense of personal integrity. Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting in a mellifluous baritone from his pulpit in Detroit, berated the callous bankers and businessmen who, he said, had brought on the Depression. But like Curley, Coughlin had no positive remedies; his Sunday sermons became exercises in slander. Before he was finally forced off the air by dwindling financial support, Coughlin...