Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NOVEMBER 7 --Curley, Walsh win in Massachusetts as nation voices approval of New Deal...
Married. Mary Curley, 26, only daughter of Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, "First Lady of the Commonwealth"; and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Calvin Donnelly, Boston adman; by William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...
...elfish News, as Yalemen quickly realized, was burlesquing William Randolph Hearst, but elsewhere in the land Red scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring...
...dominance in the manufacturing field. But since the opening of the century, the South has begun to establish its own mills. Cheap labor, plentiful coal, and proximity to the sources of raw material give it insuperable advantages over the northern area. Under such conditions the frantic speeches of Gov. Curley and the curses heaped on the head of the innocuously innocent Wallace might cause an impartial visitor from Mars to wonder at the sanity of the northern leaders...
Patrick Campbell, superintendent of schools, who will preside, will introduce as speakers President Lowell, Governor Curley, and Payson Smith, commissioner of education. Robert M. Greene, author of "Ad Scholam Matrem," will lead the exercises in the program at Symphony Hall. Henry M. Rogers, Boston Latin School '58, and Harvard '62, who is the oldest living graduate of each institution, will attend the exercises...