Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Curley invited us," said manager Walter J. Skinner '48, "and when I called him at City Hall last week I was switched through half the family, including James Michael, before we got together." Curley expressed the eagerness of Boston's citizenry to see and hear the "finest," and offered the Band $200 for the day's work. When James Caeser Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians and amateurs' nemesis extraordinary, vetoed the proposed payment, the band agreed to donate its services in a good-will gesture...
...lineups: Dudley--c., Bishop; 2b., Coughlin; l.f., Woods; s.s., Flynn; p., Curley; 3b., Ryan; 1b., Morrissen; r.f., Fraser; c., Courtney, Yaffe. Winthrop--3b., Nicholson; s.s., Bilman; 2b., Ways; 1b., Forster; c.f., Gray; l.f., Ecob; r.f., Lambey; c., Montgomery; p., Wood...
Robert A. Curley '46 and a Council member yet to be named will help the joint committee in making recommendations to Dean Robert B. Watson's office when vacancies in the Houses occur...
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...
...Curley is an orator with power in his voice reminiscent of William Jennings Bryan. After one of his court convictions, he shouted to a lecture hall jammed with adorers. "That isn't James Michael Curley they have lying in the gutter. It is you ... and you ... and you." As his finger pointed almost accusingly at faces before him, even the disinterested could feel the impact of the psychology that keeps his graft and corruption almost above criticism...