Word: curleyism
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...overshadow undergraduate interest in domestic politics. A University-wide poll sought opinion on the race for the governorship of Massachusetts and on the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. Harvard upheld one of its sons but condemned another, backing Gaspar G. Bacon '08 by a 7-1 margin over Mayor Curley (who subsequently won) and completely reversing a former pro-Roosevelt stand. The turnabout on the New Deal, many said, was long overdue; for the College should never have drifted away from its traditionally staunch, Republican stand. Cambridge was, after all, not really the place for Democrats...
...again with the same nine men who fattened their batting averages last week-end. Hot corner man Mike Drummey is still the team leader with an average of .363. Del Rossi stands second with .350 and second sacker Terry Bartolet has improved his stick mark to .340. Left fielder Curley Combs (.310) and first baseman Phil Bernstein (.327) made the biggest jumps, both gaining over 50 points during the weekend series...
...Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend the Social Security Act before the Supreme Court. At 33, he was elected to Congress-only to lose after one term to Boston's James Michael Curley...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...
...John B. Hynes, former mayor of Boston (for ten years), who twice defeated Curley, brought the Prudential Center to Boston, created the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and laid the groundwork for many of the projects now underway in the Collins administration...