Word: curleyism
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...Curley campaigners were counting heavily on making an impressive showing in this preliminary test to bring about the former mayor's political comeback. Now 77 years old, Curley claims this is his last election batle...
James Michael Curley, battling, colorful politician of old, and Mayor John B. Hynes, City Hall career man, will contend for the Boston mayorship in November as a result of primary elimination elections yesterday...
Late tabulations had Hynes in first place with 98,194 votes; Curley, second with 70,754; and, trailing far behind, Joseph F. Timilty and Thomas J. O'Brien, with 14,188 and 1,337 votes respectively...
...Timilty, Curley's campaign manager in the 1949 election and a former police commissioner under Curley, was put into the race, according to political observers, to split. Hynes' vote in certain sections of the city. O'Brien, a progressive party candidate, has run with marked unsuccess for political positions in the past...
Hynes upset Curley in the 1949 elections by a vote of 124,308 to 115,514. A former city clerk under Curley, Hynes cut deeply into Curley's once-powerful wards...