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Boston will pick from five candidates in its mayoralty race. The two principles are present Mayor John B. Hynes, who has been backed since his first election two years ago by many Boston reform groups, and former Mayor James Michael Curley, who served a term in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, for mail fraud...
Tradition points toward Curley's victory since he has always won an election after a defeat in the preceding one. But political analysts point to the fact that Curley's once powerful political machine has lost much of its might since the colorful leader took control of Boston at the beginning of this century...
...Mass for Eddie Collins was held at the Church of the Advent yesterday. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, Will Harridge, president of the American League, and Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, two of Collins' teammates in the $100,000 infield, were pall bearers. Mayor Hynes, former Governor Curley, and other notables were present...
With a fine St. Patrick's Day flourish, Boston's four-time Mayor James M. Curley last week confirmed an open secret: he will be a candidate for re-election next November. It is simply a matter of civic duty, said the 76-year-old Jim Curley, who kept right on bossing the city when he was sent to prison for mail fraud in 1947. "I have been mayor in four crises and have overcome what appeared insuperable obstacles and know that I can do it again...
...equipment quickly increased after V-J Day, Boston mayors continued the negotiations system. In 1945 and 1946 there was no bidding at all. In 1947, twelve out of fourteen contracts by-passed low bidders. When a city councillor threatened to make a scandal out of this, Mayor Curley promised to start a citywide incinerator system. But instead, the Public Works Commissioner allowed an 18 percent increase in costs...