Word: curleyism
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Almost the first student Staley had was a young ward worker named James Michael Curley, later famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...
...Ouverture. "Learning these speeches puts forms into your head," says Staley. "Instead of saying, 'I am about to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture,' one can paraphrase, 'I am about to tell you the story of a man, James Michael Curley, gleaned from the reluctant testimony of his enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class his usual thunder. "I want every person in this room to sit up!" he bellowed. "Get your chests...
...Mayor of Boston James M. Curley, 75, pardoned recently by President Truman (he spent five months in jail for mail fraud in 1947), was back in "God's country-Boston," after an extensive tour of Europe. Swinging a blackthorn shillelagh, Democrat Curley announced that he would be a candidate next year for a fifth term as mayor of Boston. About that fraud conviction? "Probably just a case of Mr. Roosevelt wanting to smear...
Boston's ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman James M. Curley, setting out on a seven-week Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, received a nice going-away present. As he boarded the liner Italia last week, the announcement came that the President had granted him a "full and unconditional" pardon of two convictions for which he had served jail time. The pardon covered convictions for 1) fraudulently taking a letter-carrier examination for a friend in 1903 (60 days in jail), and 2) mail fraud in mulcting $60,000 from clients on the promise of getting them Government contracts...
...usual effect of such presidential pardons is to restore a convict's civil rights, but under the law of Massachusetts, Curley had not lost his rights. Nevertheless, from somewhere at sea, 75-year-old Jim Curley sent word to Harry Truman that he was "deeply grateful...