Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fitting that the City Hall of Boston have character and independence. After all, the Mayor inherits his office from such men as James Michael Curley...
...others had departed. But none of them has held the grudge, particularly since O'Brien joined Robert Kennedy's staff last spring. A hotelkeeper's son from Springfield, Mass., O'Brien acquired his taste for Democratic politics as a boy orator campaigning for James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston. His early tactical work for former Governor Foster Furcolo and then for John Kennedy formed the rich expertise that was later embodied in the "O'Brien Manual," a 70-page codification of all his political know...
...decline of few other institutions could have wounded Boston's civic pride more. In the 1930s, during Mayor James Curley's heyday, Boston City was considered one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals. Curley kept it well staffed, often with his supporters, and made sure Boston's Irish got medical care "second to none." It still ranks as a first-rate research center, as a result of its affiliations with the Harvard, Tufts and Boston University medical schools, but that hardly helps patients with ordinary ailments...
...Probation. While extreme, the problems are not unique. They reflect the sharp rise in medical costs and the changing makeup of the nation's cities. In Boston's case, as the middle-class Irish drifted to the suburbs, Curley-style paternalism faded. The hospital was flooded with more and more poor patients, but it lacked the means to provide the increasingly expensive medical care. Faced with spreading urban decay and soaring annual deficits, a strapped city hall felt compelled to place the hospital's money requests far behind other needs, such as schools, slum demolition and downtown...
...much-maligned James Michael Curley had this same ability to forge personal, emotional bonds with his aides and cohorts. Shy, anxious Bobby Kennedy had something else: his backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston female lawyer back from the funeral said Sunday. "He had more imagination, guts, and heart than the rest." According to his long-time adviser Adam Yarmolinsky, his constant refrain was "What can I do about...