Word: curleyism
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...major flaw in City Politics results from the size of the authors' task. In order to make general observations about all cities they have discussed exciting figures such as Laguardia, Curley, Moses, Hague, Murphy, and DeSapio only as examples of various aspects of politics, not as individuals. Not only are these men interesting, but they have also assumed essential roles in determining the political processes of their cities. In attempting to deal with all cities, Banfield and Wilson have distilled away an essential ingredient of urban politics: the ability of individual politicians to change the political nature of their...
...better sections of the city. Opponents of fluoridation generally live in the less wealthy middle and eastern parts of Cambridge. Although it is difficult to identify their leaders with any certainty, a prominent figure among them is Charles H. McGlue, an associate of Boston's former mayor James M. Curley and an extreme conservative...
Iannello has at least one distinguished predecessor. In 1940 the late James M. Curley ran for alderman and won while serving a term in the Charles St. Jail. Curley almost pulled it off a second time in 1949 when he was defeated in the mayoralty race after serving time for mail fraud. This political heritage is not lost on Iannello, who announced with deep emotion after his nomination: "Curley was my second father. I only wish I could fill his shoes, even one shoe...
Surveying this new integrity pitch, the Macon News concluded in an editorial: "The miracle is that everyone who remembers the Griffin administration's shenanigans didn't fall right down laughing ... In some far-off limbo where old politicians go when they die, Jim Curley, the ex-mayor of Boston who was once elected while serving a jail sentence, must have nodded his head in admiration at the colossal gall of Marvin Griffin...
...method of Recovery?" And the next day a 3-1 landslide in a Faculty poll backed up the students' position. On the gubernatorial race, the professors were even further off the track than the undergraduates had been--Faculty opinion spotted Republican Bacon as a 20 to 1 favorite over Curley...