Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the spring's activities centered around the Lampoon. After the Ibis had been annually stolen, the comic organization published its Tercentenary number, which was followed with threat of a suit from Boston Mayor James Curley...
...parody of the Massachusetts Bay Charter referred to Curley as "J. Curley, alias J. Crookyde," and mentioned that the mayor "left jail to serve another term as mayor." 'Poon President Paul Brooks '31 hastily rushed to offer the magazine's apologies to the mayor. The mayor, because of "the complete and abject apology of the president of the Harvard Lampoon, in view of his extreme youth and the effect that court proceedings might have on his future . . .," accepted the apologies...
...topic of crooked politicians and to illustrate his argument, he named a few of the bosses of the day. At this point Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, interrupted. Quite off-handedly, he suggested that the student could use the current mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, as an equally good example of a dishonest politician. Seavey did not know as he said this that Mayor Curley's son was sitting in the front row of the class...
...Professor's ignorance did not last very long, however. The son ceremoniously withdrew from the Law School because his father's honor had been insulted, and Mayor Curley made a public statement to explain his son's action. News of the affair reached as far as the newspapers of Shanghai, Seavey recalls...
...John P. Curley, graduate manager of athletics at Boston College, said that he and Bolles had discussed a B.C.- Harvard game several times during the past year and a half, but had reached no definite decision...