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Such was the homecoming last week for James Michael Curley, 71, who is both a Congressman ($10,000 a year) and Mayor of Boston ($20,000). He was returning from Washington, where a Federal Court jury had found him guilty of using the mails to defraud. The welcoming committee, 1,000 strong, included his old friend Maxwell Grossman, who is also Boston's Commissioner of Penal Institutions...
...Curley invited his friends to his home in Jamaica Plain for an informal reception, and they followed him out in a long and noisy motorcade. His comment on the unfortunate happenings in Washington: "It's just one of those things...
Congressman James Michael Curley, now 70, but reluctant as ever to leave the public payroll, announced that he would run for Mayor of Boston, a job he has held three times. Said he: "With due moderation, barring accidents, [I] should live for at least 25 years longer to please my friends and confound rumor mongers." It was no rumor that last year he finished paying off a $42,629 judgment for a rake-off from the last time (1930-1933) he was mayor...
James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' rough-&-ruddy Irish politico, who has been mayor of staunchly Catholic Boston off & on since 1914, and is again a candidate for the job this year, received his first campaign contribution from two soldiers in the Philippines: 20 pesos, which turned out to be counterfeit...
...politicians, Boston's James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress...