Word: curleyism
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...Boston's history. Furthermore, Tuesday, election day, was fine and most of those registered could get to the polls. In the morning papers, Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the darling of Boston politics, came out in favor of John B. Hynes. By ten p.m. that night, James M. Curley, the aged and colorful ruler of the Boston political world, had been beaten by Hynes, the man who replaced him when he served his jail sentence...
...change is welcome in Boston. The city is well-rid of the crowd of mourners in City Hall who waked Curley's political corpse on election night because they had lost their jobs. With a new major, the city can expect new employees who, at least for a time, will stimulate the city's functioning More than that, the voters who elected Hynes can now demand a strict accounting of their tax money...
...Boston, the mayoralty campaign, fought merely on the question of whether the incumbent mayor, James Michael Curley, should be kept in office, finished with an exchange of mud slinging...
...Curley, who ignored his opponents until the final weeks of the race...
...unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration...