Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend here will go places-perhaps he will be the next mayor of Boston," rumbled Boston's convivial Mayor James Michael Curley at a wedding party for a boyish, promising lieutenant named Maurice J. Tobin in 1932. Last week as James Michael Curley, fresh from the Governor ship of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate, tried to capture his Boston bailiwick for the fourth time, his prediction came bitterly true...
...Curley in Color...
...next views are taken up near the platform. There are shots of President Conant delivering citations, Governor Curley putting on his glasses before delivering a speech, and President Roosevelt nodding and applauding. The series concludes with pictures of some well soaked delegates having coffee and sandwiches in the refreshment tent...
With 385 precinct out of 388 reporting, Maurice J. Tobin seemed certain to receive the election of Mayor of Boston as this paper went to press at 2 o'clock this morning. Tobin polled 103,059 votes, former Governor James M. Curley 81,034, Malcolm E. Nichols...
Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history...