Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to avoid court bans became the college's spring fad. First the Liberal Club obtained Margaret Sanger, a devotee of birth controlled who had been banned by Mayor Curley, as a luncheon speaker...
Boston's Radio Station WBMS announced an eloquent addition to its staff: James M. Curley, 77, four-time Boston mayor, sometime Massachusetts governor, congressman and convict (using the mails to defraud). Curley's contract specifies that he may talk about anything during his hour-long program, three times a week, but must not be called a "disk jockey...
...election, his Democratic opponent was James Michael Curley, who sneered at "Little Boy Blue." But Cabot Lodge won by 135,000 votes, although Franklin Roosevelt carried the state by 174,000. Lodge was the only Republican in the nation in 1936 to win a Senate seat from a Democrat...
...Judge Streit's blast brought some blunt and immediate answers. "It isn't any of the judge's business in the first place," yelped S.M.U. Athletic Director Matty Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit's indictment, defended...
...Boston, ex-Convict James Michael Curley, former mayor, Congressman and governor, made a halfhearted effort to come back to another term as mayor. Respected Mayor John B. Hynes buried Curley under the biggest plurality in the history of Boston mayoralty elections. Candidates of the New Boston Committee, a nonpartisan reform organization, won five of nine seats on the city council, four of five on the school committee...