Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blair was by no means the only important change in the American last fortnight. Managing Editor James P. Bicket was replaced by quiet, gentle-mannered Royal Daniel Jr., one time managing editor of Hearst's Boston Advertiser and lately of the Washington Herald. Reason: small, smart William A. Curley had been in town. Now managing editor of the profitable New York Eve ning Journal, which he has built up as he built up the Chicago American and Los Angeles Herald, "Bill" Curley is Publisher Hearst's chief "trouble-shooter." From his Manhattan headquarters he dashes about to Boston...
...progress was halted. Governor Roosevelt had been warned to keep out of the primary in Massachusetts on the ground that the State was still as fiercely loyal to Alfred Emanuel Smith as it was four years ago. Governor Roosevelt was persuaded to enter by blustering, self-confident James Curley, Mayor of Boston. Mayor Curley thought he saw a chance to ride a presidential winner and thereby become No. 1 Democrat of his State. Besides, Col. Edward Mandell House, quiet little party strategist with a summer home at Manchester, had declared for the New York Governor, sponsored a luncheon last year...
...really his first serious fight for the nomination, Governor Roosevelt took a terrible beating in Massachusetts. He lost not only every single one of the State's 36 convention votes but also an incalculable amount of national prestige. The popular Smith margin was 3-to-1. Mayor Curley could not even carry his own Boston for Mr. Roosevelt. Where Senator Walsh topped the slate of Smith delegates-at-large with 153,303 votes, the Governor's son James was high man on the Roosevelt slate with only 56,480. Few observers had anticipated a Smith defeat but fewer...
...Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated by Promoter Jack Curley in Manhattan and the Midwest. Some of his stablemates are Richard Shikat, Jim McMillen, Leon Pinetski, Gino Garibaldi, Sandor Szabo. De Vito was allowed to wrestle Champion Londos because he professed to have severed connection with the Bowser group. Promoter Curley, sure that Londos could beat him anyway, was inclined...
...full Roosevelt slate of delegates-at-large was put into the Massachusetts primary (36 votes) by Boston's Mayor Curley. One candidate was James, 25-year-old son of the New York Governor, who lives in Cambridge, sells insurance...