Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
...friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
Saltonstall, who triumphed over exGovernor James M. Curley in the recent Massachusetts gubernatorial race, will complete the trio of guest speakers...
Meanwhile, Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore encouraged his Austrian colleagues and excoriated their Nazi enemies from a Washington pulpit in a way no German bishop would dare. "The madman Hitler and the cripple-minded Goebbels," he cried, "cannot silence the gentle and humble and courageous Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, nor can they silence the brave Innitzer [Archbishop of Vienna]. . . . No decent person can condone the actions of the madman Hitler and the cripple-minded Goebbels. . . . If Hitler does not like what I say about him and his cripple-minded Minister of Propaganda, let him take up the matter with...
Sullivan attributes his defeat to "too much Republican money" and Curley's weakness as head of the state ticket. "The Republicans were smart," he explained. "They knew Hurley would be a harder man to beat than Curley, so they pushed him out in the primaries...