Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertaker dressed James Michael Curley in the morning coat and grey trousers he always affected on high occasions, laced a rosary in his hands, and around his waist tied the knotted white cord of the Third Order of St. Francis. Boston politicians draped City Hall in crape and half-staffed flags; they carried the casket to the Statehouse, where it rested three days with a policemen's guard around the bier and 100,000 filing past. Whispered one old lady: "If the Good Lord had made a pact with Curley and given him a choice between this here...
Long Life & Grace. Curley would have taken the funeral Mass too, with his own Jesuit son. Father Francis, as celebrant and the Archbishop of Boston in the sanctuary. Packing the pews and spilling into the streets: notables and Knights of Columbus, workingmen and housewives and ward politicians, down to 79-year-old William ("Up Up") Kelly, who through so many campaigns dashed into rallies shouting: "Up, up, everybody up for the Governor," and was never fazed until the night he dashed into a deaf-mutes' rally. But one thing Curley might not have liked. In keeping with diocesan practice...
...Goos" and K.K.K. Tenement-born son of an immigrant hod carrier. Curley came to boyhood while the Brahmins ran Boston and the want ads read: "No Irish need apply." He decided that politics was the quickest vehicle to carry him from shanty to lace curtains, developed two tricks to grease the passage. He haunted public libraries, feasted on Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens and Thackeray, became a silver-throated orator. And he played skillfully and sometimes shamelessly on the pride and privation of Boston's Irish poor...
...Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered...
Died. James Michael Curley, 83, onetime top Democrat in Massachusetts (Mayor of Boston, Governor, Congressman); following surgery for an internal obstruction; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...