Word: curleyism
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...normally spry (at 82) Massachusetts Politico James M. Curley, in Boston after breaking both shoulders in two falls within thrfee days; luscious Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, in Manhattan after an emergency operation for a crushed spinal disk; Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 70, discharged after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion...
...Boston got that way has been written down in the involved accounts of many long books. The Puritans are blamed, or the Irish, or the Italians, or the weather, or Curley, or Beacon Hill, or the Red Sox, or social forces...
Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
...perfected--from the state constitution to the notion that a victorious party has the God-given right to gerrymander any election district that it can get its hands on. And Massachusetts has given the nation the epitome of personal political leadership in the forty-year career of Jim Curley. For despite his occasional imprisonment and current forced retirement, Boston's loyalty to the Curley image--to the man who provides Christmas baskets for the poor and keeps his followers on the City Payroll--nevertheless endures as a source of local pride...
...know Mayor Curley...