Word: curleyism
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Hynes could not match the melodious oratory and easy braggadocio of 74-year-old Jim Curley. But then, he had never been put in jail for fraud either...
...learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and Democratic), and he harbored little love for the shopworn, sticky-fingered machine of Mayor James Michael Curley...
...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
Bruner said that he had discovered this tie in and the Nambikuari during a recent study of Boston political behavior. Many citizens told him of the time that Curley could be counted on as a "soft touch for a loan," particularly during family emergencies...
...chief of the Nambikuaris, a South American tribe, governs the tribe much as Curley runs Boston, he explained. The chief keeps his subjects in line by "being a good guy" and by "constantly handing out" trinkets, bits of food and other favors...