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Good Beats. The stories were often beats, good exclusives. When the state legislature passed a "sneak" bill to pension its former members-including a $12,000-a-year lifetime pension for ex-Governor and ex-Convict James M. Curley (TIME, Sept. 15)-the Post was the first paper to spot it, rode it so hard that the bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being...
...Pension payments to state legislators were handsomely increased, and the system was broadened to make anyone who had ever served in the legislature eligible for a pension based on his highest salary in public office. No. 1 beneficiary: Democrat James M. Curley, now 77, former governor, former mayor of Boston, and ex-convict (five months for mail fraud). Curley, who served in the state legislature in 1902-03, is eligible for a $1,000-monthly pension under the new law. ¶Retroactive payments, amounting to thousands of dollars, will go to statehouse employees, some earning as much...
...Curley began by saying that he would certainly apply for a pension, cracked: "What's in a name? If my name were Frothingham, Shattuck or even Nichols, there would be no objections." But the public fury grew ominously. By week's end the Democrats were in full retreat. Curley announced he would not accept the pension after all. Governor Dever gave in, called a special session to meet this week and go over the whole question of pensions for pols...
Trying to avoid court bans became the college's spring fad. First the Liberal Club obtained Margaret Sanger, a devotee of birth controlled who had been banned by Mayor Curley, as a luncheon speaker...
Boston's Radio Station WBMS announced an eloquent addition to its staff: James M. Curley, 77, four-time Boston mayor, sometime Massachusetts governor, congressman and convict (using the mails to defraud). Curley's contract specifies that he may talk about anything during his hour-long program, three times a week, but must not be called a "disk jockey...