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...triumph of the N.B.C. and Mayor John B. Hynes who defeated James Michael Curley's half century rule of Boston has finally come to an end. Curley's home wards did not come through for the veteran politician, who conducted a phantom campaign, and his once well-functioning machine failed
Meanwhile, James Michael Curley brought to a close one of the strangest campaigns for the Boston mayoralty ever waged by a big city political "boss" Although his name appears on the ballot tomorrow, Curley has not raised his voice Silent too has been the once formidable vote-getting machine that made him the city's mayor four times, Congressman four times, and Governor once...
...many a furor among Catholics. A strong voice of the anti-Communist left, Commonweal is pro-union and consumer cooperatives, and anti-bigotry. It used to whiplash Detroit's ranting Father Coughlin, and blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with the workers. When Catholics succeeded in banning Roberto Rossellini's movie, The Miracle, Commonweal's scolding movie reviewer wrote that "The end result...
Boston voters also gave a 31,000-vote majority to Mayor John B. Hynes over Boston's former mayor and political boss, Ex-Convict James Michael Curley...
Thanking AL Smith, we started to leave. Two men were still pushing around bales of Curley posters, and we asked why. "We're taking the posters down town," one of them said. "That's where Curley's new campaign headquarters will be. Better location, you know. All this (withdrawal) business is just a bluff...