Word: curleyism
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...Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications carried the story. By & large, the Boston press was best summed up by a proper Bostonian's remark: "For murder and rape, we can read the Boston papers. For the news, we read the New York Times...
Died. Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, and Leo Curley, 34, only daughter and eldest son of Massachusetts' ex-Governor James Michael Curley, longtime mayor (off & on) of Boston, the sixth and seventh of his nine children to die; she of a cerebral hemorrhage; he, the same day, of a heart attack, while making arrangements for his sister's funeral; in Boston...
...flurrying the patron curious enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley or codfish or Cunningham...
...politics. He quit school at 13, in the days when the help-wanted ads said "No Irish Need Apply," got a high-school education and law degree at night schools. He had climbed to the city clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty. To protect him from Curley's reprisals for taking the post, the Massachusetts state legislature voted him the city clerk's job for life...
Johnny Hynes's election gave Boston a long-needed chance for some political reform, and the mayor-elect hoped to oblige. First, he would sweep some 200 Curley appointees out of City Hall, including two of old Jim's sons. "Our city," said Hynes, "needs a new moral tone, a new atmosphere and a new outlook...