Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surveying this new integrity pitch, the Macon News concluded in an editorial: "The miracle is that everyone who remembers the Griffin administration's shenanigans didn't fall right down laughing ... In some far-off limbo where old politicians go when they die, Jim Curley, the ex-mayor of Boston who was once elected while serving a jail sentence, must have nodded his head in admiration at the colossal gall of Marvin Griffin...
...overshadow undergraduate interest in domestic politics. A University-wide poll sought opinion on the race for the governorship of Massachusetts and on the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. Harvard upheld one of its sons but condemned another, backing Gaspar G. Bacon '08 by a 7-1 margin over Mayor Curley (who subsequently won) and completely reversing a former pro-Roosevelt stand. The turnabout on the New Deal, many said, was long overdue; for the College should never have drifted away from its traditionally staunch, Republican stand. Cambridge was, after all, not really the place for Democrats...
...method of Recovery?" And the next day a 3-1 landslide in a Faculty poll backed up the students' position. On the gubernatorial race, the professors were even further off the track than the undergraduates had been--Faculty opinion spotted Republican Bacon as a 20 to 1 favorite over Curley...
...again with the same nine men who fattened their batting averages last week-end. Hot corner man Mike Drummey is still the team leader with an average of .363. Del Rossi stands second with .350 and second sacker Terry Bartolet has improved his stick mark to .340. Left fielder Curley Combs (.310) and first baseman Phil Bernstein (.327) made the biggest jumps, both gaining over 50 points during the weekend series...
...Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend the Social Security Act before the Supreme Court. At 33, he was elected to Congress-only to lose after one term to Boston's James Michael Curley...