Word: curleys
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Last week Judge Frederick W. Fosdick of the Massachusetts Superior Court handed down a decision holding that two good Bay State Democrats were guilty of accepting graft in a manner intelligible to the humblest citizen. One was James Michael Curley, thrice Mayor of Boston, once Governor of Massachusetts: the other his political satellite. Dr. Joseph Santosuosso, twice Democratic candidate for State Secretary of State...
...when ruddy, jovial Jim Curley was Mayor of Boston, a city water connection burst, flooding the premises of General Equipment Corp. From Ernest Wr. Brown Co., its insurance agency. General Equipment collected $70,199.29. The agency salvaged $15,488.15 worth of equipment, was left $54,711.14 out of pocket. Thereupon the agency, represented by Lawyer Santosuosso. sued the City, settled its claim out of court for $85,000 of taxpayers' money...
...less than one-fourth of that sum went to the insurance agency. In a suit brought by the city against Messrs. Curley & Santosuosso, Judge Fosdick found tha't the $85,000 had been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...
Ordering Mr. Curley and Lawyer Santosuosso to repay their shares to the city plus 6% interest. Judge Fosdick dryly concluded: "I find consciousness of guilt on the part of both defendants in that each testified falsely before me in material particulars...
...battle, fought periodically ever since the law was enacted under the Curley regime, opposing forces led chiefly by educators and labor leaders, are not confident of victory. Led by President Conant and prominent members of the faculties of Harvard and almost every college in the State, the drive was checked by the veto of Governor Hurley last year...