Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Dineen, James M. Curley, and Jerome Rappaport will be guest speakers at the Harvard Law School Forum tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the New Lecture Hall...
...heart attack; in Scituate, Mass. Son of an Irish immigrant carpenter, he grew up in Boston's drab Mission Hill district, worked his way through high school, studied law at night. After two years in the state legislature, handsome Democrat Tobin twice upset Boss Jim Curley in hard-fought mayoralty campaigns, resigned to win the governorship by 150,000 votes, lost it to Back Bay Republican Robert F. Bradford two years later. Appointed Labor Secretary by Truman before the 1948 election. Fair Dealer Tobin backed union demands in last year's steel dispute, urged revision of the Taft...
Good Beats. The stories were often beats, good exclusives. When the state legislature passed a "sneak" bill to pension its former members-including a $12,000-a-year lifetime pension for ex-Governor and ex-Convict James M. Curley (TIME, Sept. 15)-the Post was the first paper to spot it, rode it so hard that the bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being...
...Pension payments to state legislators were handsomely increased, and the system was broadened to make anyone who had ever served in the legislature eligible for a pension based on his highest salary in public office. No. 1 beneficiary: Democrat James M. Curley, now 77, former governor, former mayor of Boston, and ex-convict (five months for mail fraud). Curley, who served in the state legislature in 1902-03, is eligible for a $1,000-monthly pension under the new law. ¶Retroactive payments, amounting to thousands of dollars, will go to statehouse employees, some earning as much...
...Curley began by saying that he would certainly apply for a pension, cracked: "What's in a name? If my name were Frothingham, Shattuck or even Nichols, there would be no objections." But the public fury grew ominously. By week's end the Democrats were in full retreat. Curley announced he would not accept the pension after all. Governor Dever gave in, called a special session to meet this week and go over the whole question of pensions for pols...