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...never approached the power or political skill of James Michael Curley, but it is obvious the former Boston mayor is Vellucci's role model. Curley perfected the urban ethnic style of politics that some call "urban populism," and Vellucci has been an apt pupil and improviser...
Doubles teams of Lundy-Chaikovsky ("A"), Shaw-Walker ("B"), and Greg Kirsch-Jim Curley ("C"), all faltered in second-round matches, leaving Harvard entrenched far down in the standings...
Like many of his EE 304 colleagues, reported TIME's Barbara Dolan, Cadet Kenneth Curley saw his re-entry as both a new beginning and an end to humiliation. Curley, 22, was ranked seventh in leadership in his old class. He observes sardonically that he "would have been a real big shot" at the academy had he not become involved in the scandal. During his year in purgatory, spent back home in West Islip, N.Y., working as a kitchen helper and steeplejack, his parents got calls from anonymous taunters who would jeer, "I hear your...
...celebrated case: James Michael Curley. who was jailed for mail fraud in 1947 during his final term as Boston's mayor, was paid his salary while in prison, and emerged to resume his duties...
SEVENTY YEARS AGO Boston consisted of several petty fiefdom controlled by ward-level political machines. Martin "Mahatma" Lomasney in the West End, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the North End, and James Michael Curley himself, patriarch of the South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate...