Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston voters also gave a 31,000-vote majority to Mayor John B. Hynes over Boston's former mayor and political boss, Ex-Convict James Michael Curley...
...voters, chanting out names, addresses, and party affiliations. Four of them resembled washerwomen but the fifth was nattily dressed in a tweedy jacket, orange scarf, and a chic red hat. Three typists had appeared during our short absence and were peeking out news releases. Smith explained "Of course Mr. Curley's regular political life keeps him busy. That's the only reason these people are working...
...except for the one facing Copley Square and the Boston Public Library. There a large number of men were smoking cigars and listening to the Giants beat the Yankees, 5 to 1. We approached a tubby man with his feet propped up on a desk and asked, "Who is Curley's real campaign manager...
Tommy Kelly went back to his telephone, leaving us with AL Smith. "I've been with Curley forty years," Smith lamented when asked about Curley's withdrawal, "and I've never seen anything like this." Then he turned red and said angrily "Some people forget favors you've done for them the very next day." He recounted some of the favors Curley had done for the poor, from Christmas baskets to labor legislation, and told us, "That man has got a bigger heart than head...
Thanking AL Smith, we started to leave. Two men were still pushing around bales of Curley posters, and we asked why. "We're taking the posters down town," one of them said. "That's where Curley's new campaign headquarters will be. Better location, you know. All this (withdrawal) business is just a bluff...