Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beliefs: lower taxes; more money for the unemployed. (This irreconcilability reminiscent of Curley). More welfare money from Roosevelt. Unemployment insurance; minimum wage laws; old age security; abolition to child labor; elimination of sweat-shops; lower automobile insurance rates...
Beliefs: He "recognizes the necessity for providing relief for property owners and favors such legislation as will make this possible." Note: also states that "no man, woman, or child in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be either cold or hungry." To Mr. Curley those two platforms seem completely reconcilable; to the Committee...
...James M. Curley, Democrat. Experience: "I have held public office during the greater part of the past 35 years." Ten years in the city government of Boston, two years a member of State Legislature, four years as Member of Congress, twelve years as Mayor of the city of Boston. Obviously adequate...
Opinion of opponent Curley: Trying to ride in on rump of Roosevelt's horse...
Qualifications: Socialist; has been in jail for his moral convictions; Curley for another conviction...