Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply to the Governor's message to the Legislature in which he reaffirmed his support of the Curley law, Mather said: "My only reply to Hurley is that so many people disagree with his conclusion that the Teachers' Oath is in-offensive' that in all probability it will be an item of considerable importance in the campaign for election of Governor in the fall...
...they see slinking along Massachusetts Avenue with hats pulled over their eyes and a habit of dodging into alleys at the sight of an undergraduate. Before putting the cuffs on any of these shy, furtive men the police must make sure whether they are ex-members of the Curley administration or the Harvard faculty hiding from students who have study-cards to be signed...
...strongest ally of "Boston's Original Roosevelt Man" has in the past been Boston's non-partisan election law, which provides for no primary to weed out contenders, and usually produces enough can didates, to split the Curley opposition. Soliciting the anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late...
Candidate Foley advertised in the news papers that his three principal rivals, including Boss Curley himself, were only a deceptive front for New England Tele phone & Telegraph Co., which Candidate Tobin until recently worked for as a divi sion manager. Charged with the duty of deciding for his Back Bay votes which among the contestants was the least of four evils, Republican Leader Henry Parkman, Jr., who in the last mayoral election came in a poor fourth with 29,000, finally settled on Candidate Tobin. That many another anti-Curley Bostonian had done likewise appeared when young Maurice Tobin rolled...
Even more stunned by 36-year-old Maurice Tobin's victory over him than he was by his Senatorial trimming at the hands of 34-year-old Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 62-year-old Jim Curley, his golden voice hoarse, prepared to depart for the West Indies. To reporters who intimated that he had received a second unmistakable cue for his political exit, the old boss parried: "I will decide what to do next when I have had a rest and my vision is clear...