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Mayor James A. Curley of Boston is in Washington begging, arguing with his fellow Democrats for federal assistance to pull a fast sinking Boston from the muck of bankruptcy; New York Tammany grows wary since the city-budget does not balance; the loaning bankers demand security in the form of better government at a lower cost; and, of course, Chicago had seen nothing but deep red since 1928. Heavy fixed debts, relics of the anterior period of over-expansion plus the increasing tax delinquency problem, and the burden of welfare work and relief have all combined to effect this unhealthy...
...fairly optimistic outlook for the future is offered by the projected inflation program," stated Mayor Curley in a CRIMSON interview yesterday. "It is absolutely necessary," continued the Mayor, "that higher prices be received for agricultural products as well as other commodities. There can be no prosperity in America until the condition of the farmer becomes prosperous. The agricultural element represents one fourth of the nation, and it is upon this element that the remaining three quarters is dependent. The United States' agricultural communities have been submerged for a period of more than five years, and the various sugar-coated programs...
...Poland James Michael Curley, thrice mayor of Boston, was given a nomination to be U. S. Ambassador. This one-time grocery boy had early hopped the Roosevelt bandwagon but failed to carry Massachusetts for his candidate in the presidential primary. He squeezed into the Chicago convention on a Puerto Rico proxy, campaigned lustily for the party nominee out of earshot of his own State. For his services he expected nothing less than a seat in the Cabinet. When he did not get that, he picked out Rome and the U. S. Ambassadorship there as his reward. Last month after...
...President Roosevelt had some one else picked for Italy. Mayor Curley went back to Boston, took to his bed with a cold. The President last week announced his appointment as Ambassador to Poland. Two days later Mayor Curley leaped out of bed, sped to Washington and with a rhetorical flourish that sounded almost sarcastic told the President he was "eternally grateful" for the offer of the Warsaw post but he would have to decline it. His reason: "The clear call of duty . . . that I remain in America [and Boston] . . . cannot be disregarded...
President Roosevelt will, of course, conduct himself from the situation with as much grace as Mr. Curley leaves him. The mayor given a Roman palace, would quickly shed his indignation, and an accession of peace might come to the President. But the angry Mr. Curley has drawn the veil from the rusty joints of patronage, extremely disquieting to public confidence, exactly at the psychological moment. Before his next outburst, the mayor might profitably ponder the tale of the man who killed the goose, and learn what happened to the golden eggs...