Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...
TIME says that Collins is the ablest mayor Boston has had "since James Michael Curley first flexed his young muscles...
...John B. Hynes, former mayor of Boston (for ten years), who twice defeated Curley, brought the Prudential Center to Boston, created the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and laid the groundwork for many of the projects now underway in the Collins administration...
...prevent him from winning the mayoralty four years later and setting out to revivify Boston. He has excellent relations with the Yankee hierarchy that rules Boston's business and finance, is the ablest mayor that the city has had since James Michael Curley first flexed his young muscles. In typical Boston fashion, Collins believes that "there is a little bit of Boston everywhere...
From Boston came the last begorra of the late James Michael Curley, sometime mayor, Governor and U.S. Congressman. Although often accused of sticky fingers and once imprisoned for five months on conviction of mail fraud, Curley-according to an accounting of his will filed last week-left a net estate of only...