Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' rough-&-ruddy Irish politico, who has been mayor of staunchly Catholic Boston off & on since 1914, and is again a candidate for the job this year, received his first campaign contribution from two soldiers in the Philippines: 20 pesos, which turned out to be counterfeit...
...politicians, Boston's James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress...
...alarmed. Huey Long, Bilbo and Boss Crump managed without grand opera; and grand opera north of the Mason & Dixon Line manages without Hague, Pendergast and Curley...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...