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Hardened though she is to the antics of her public servants, the spectacle of Governor Curley bringing a libel suit against The Boston Herald on the grounds of an article in which his name was not once mentioned, should make even Massachusetts blush...
...Herald stated that the resignation of Commissioner of Correction Lyman was due to the action of a "high ranking state official." Has Governor Curley suddenly become so sensitive that he imagines himself to be this official? It is a testament of the ever-recurring optimism of mankind that Governor Curley is still sensitive to the press at all. The many "incivilities" tendered him during that golden age when His Excellency was Mayor of Boston should have toughened his skin. In addition Governor Curley has pending a $500,000 libel suit against this same newspaper for publishing verbatim a report...
...Governor Curley should drop his libel suits before they get beyond his control. It is not becoming for the highest official in the Commonwealth to interfere with the freedom of the press. Moreover, His Excellency should recall the words of Grover Cleveland; "Don't sue for libel; they may prove...
...South End ragamuffins picketed the annual show of Boston's swank Vincent Club with placards demanding the "resignation" from the club of Mary Curley, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley and not a Vincent member. Picked up by police, the ragamuffins said that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and another Harvard freshman hired them as a joke on the clubgirls...
...Holy Cross College and Harvard Law, Frank Dowd Comerford of Boston is called biggest and brightest of New England's younger utilities tycoons. President of New England Power Association, which controls a string of 50 gas and electric companies, he was designated spokesman for the industry when Governor Curley launched his drive against Massachusetts utility rates few weeks ago. Last week Utilitarian Comerford took over another big job when he was elected president of independent Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, New England's largest single operating electric utility. He will remain with New England Power Association...