Word: curleyism
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...help of Aladdin's Lamp, but they can and do exert considerable influence as to what Democrats are elected--frequently having an obvious balance-of-power. It was only with solid Republican backing that Secretary of Labor Tobin and Mayor Hynes have been able to defeat former Mayor Curley in recent elections. It is difficult for a Democrat to be elected Mayor without some Republican support...
Former Mayor James Michael Curley candidate for election in the Boston November election, announced last night that he would not campaign for office. But, he quickly added, this does not mean that he is withdrawing from the race. "I couldn't if I wanted to, because my name is on the ballot," he stated...
Boston voters indicated in primary elections they are satisfied with the present "good government" administration. They gave Mayor John B. Hynes, a City Hall career man, a total of 108,428 votes, against 77,011 for former Mayor James Michael Curley. Two other candidates were eliminated from running November...
Comparison of present and past elec-statistics seem to indicate that Curley has lost much of his drawing power. This time, his once-mighty machine did not pile up huge votes for him--even in his home districts. To veteran Boston political observers, this indicates that Hynes will have a very good chance of defeating Curley for the second time...
Elected mayor of Boston in 1912, 1921, 1929, and 1935, Curley lost the mayorship in 1917, 1937, 1941, and 1949. He has also served five terms in the United States House of Representatives and one term as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1947, while a member of Congress, he served a term of five months in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecti-cut for mail fraud...