Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curley, when asked what he planned to do after giving up his office tomorrow said that he was going to tend to his own business. This declaration is enough to evoke a respiration by the people of the state that will create a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and at least a zephyr in the Himalayas. Too long have they had the impression that he was at one and the same time mismanaging other people's business and attending to his own, in the usual sense of the word...
...successor, Mr. Hurley, has delivered himself of several promising statements regarding expenditure and other state matters. Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
According to an official report received from the headquarters of the institution, the newly-formed Young Voters Boondoggling and Temperance League will present an orchid to Governor Curley as he descends the steps of the State House tomorrow morning...
...communique follows: "Having received a fresh carload of black-and-tan orchids from Jackson Hole, New Hampshire, the Young Voters Boondoggling and Temperance League is in a position to donate these touching tokens. Tomorrow's orchid goes to the lucky newly-wed, James Michael Curley, and will be presented on the State House steps by our post commander...
...crush all vestiges of individual liberalism within his state. The conflict with President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin destroys what favorable connotations the label "progressive" may still have in the minds of balanced thinkers. Fragmentary reports indicate the resemblance of this clash to some of Governor Curley's ridiculous excesses on Beacon Hill. Dominated by LaFollette appointees, the Board of Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that Frank drive from the campus all "individuals...