Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant delivered a neat poke at Governor Curley and brought a widely known educator to Harvard yesterday when he appointed Payson Smith, ousted Massachusetts Commissioner of education, as lecturer on Education at the Graduate School of Education...
...nineteen-year administration as Masachusetts Commissioner of Education Dr. Smith created an organization which was not only the first of its kind but also a pattern for Departments of Education in other states throughout the country. But this colorless and academic accomplishment held no allure for James M. Curley, who, it is pleasant to note, is a product of the Massachusetts school system before Dr. Smith had an opportunity to establish adequate education. Far outweighing any qualifications he may have had for the post of Commissioner of Education was the man's unpardonable sin--he was a Republican...
...blot on the Commonwealth, the political machinations with which it was accomplished were a disgrace which should have shown the citizens of Massachusetts clearly enough just what they were getting when they "returned capability to the State House." The reappointment of Dr. Smith by the pontifical Governor Curley and his subsequent rejection on the part of the Council, which, we are supposed to believe, was acting completely on its own initiative, were acts of political duplicity to which even Bay States are not accustomed...
...Curley has stopped being surly...
Before sallying forth, it would be well for the University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...