Word: fitzgerald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite as famed as cod or Cabots in Massachusetts are the feuds between John Francis Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley, sometime Boston mayors. Sons-of-the-system, hot-headed Hibernians, they have called each other most of the names that can be printed and all the unprintable ones. In Dorchester, where they mostly hold their quarrels and reunions, the very ash wagons creak with politics...
Last week, in the hot-packed dining room of Young's Hotel, Mr. Fitzgerald made his way to the rostrum where Mr. Curley was making a political oration. Mr. Curley paused, leaned over the rail and offered his hand. Mr. Fitzgerald seized it, shook it, mounted the platform, shook hands again. He began a speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy...
...Dancing Daughters shows young life cocktailored by Director Harry Beaumont. It is exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted...
Centers: W. F. Brooks, C. C. Cunningham, Desmond Fitzgerald, W. O. Gay, Matthew Hale, W. B. Tratford...
Resentment and alarm at undercover anti-Catholic tactics-William B. Tubby of Greenwich, Conn., Quaker and longtime Republican. Similarly, President H. R. Fitzgerald of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Dry Democrat, longtime friend of Nominee Hoover...