Word: curleys
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...legends--from Massachusetts' original James Michael Curley to a young idealist named John F. Kennedy '40, to the shepherd of the Democratic revolution in Congress, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, to blue-collar standard bearer, Joseph P. Kennedy...
Since the days of James Michael Curley and ward politics, the district has been its shape and boundaries radically change to the fit the molds of proportional representation...
...Curley, Kennedy, O'Neill and Kennedy all came from the same urban, Irish-Catholic roots and appealed to the same liberal working class voters...
...year-old homeless women was killed by a companion in March, a 19-year-old man was shot in Hoyt Field in August and 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley was kidnapped, raped and murdered in October...
...events have no doubt spurred much of the debate in the state legislature. Jeffrey Curley's tragic kidnapping and murder inspired Governor A. Paul Cellucci and others to press particularly hard for death penalty legislation. Likewise, the somewhat dubious conviction of Louise Woodward for second-degree murder gave legislators pause over voting to allow the state to put an individual to death...