Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, Mayor James Curley, who has done time on a mail fraud rap, took a backward look at his life & hard times. "I might have taken the primrose path," he admitted righteously, "but I chose the thorny path-trying to do something for the needy, the unfortunate. Any man that takes the hard, thorny road will always be accused of being a boss and a buccaneer...
Watching the first night football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
...been paid on the gross profits before any of the surplus had been plowed back into improvements for the transit system; thus, the stock was for private investors highly profitable and secure. Inasmuch as a politically appointed board of trustees ran the company, these stocks became during the Curley regime a form of party patronge. So the State elimination of these dividends cut out a large portion of the system's yearly operating expenses...
...Mary E. Curley, as a guest of John A. Galey of Winnetka, Ill., will attend the Yale Junior Prom at Payno Whitney gymnasium Friday evening...
...know-but prison records aren't always bad politically. I knew in the Polish section in Detroit, if you've been to jail a couple of times, it helps a lot if you're running for office! And, for that matter, look at Curley." The governor laughed heartily...