Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a Hearst town, legmen sought out and gave reams of space to obscure insurance men and lawyers who had founded unobtrusive "Mac-for-President" clubs months ago. Boston's Mayor Curley, glad to do a favor for the Record and the American, endorsed MacArthur - as a Democratic candidate. When opposition newsmen called him to check it, Curley laughed that he'd been "just kidding with the reporters." On second thought he said, "No, let the statement stand...
Boston's popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
Massachusetts State Censorship imposed three cuts on "Forever Amber" two weeks ago, after which the Police Commissioner, the Commission of Arts, and Mayor Curley, sitting as a city censorship board, struck out two additional parts...