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...spite of numerous political reverses, the hey-day of Curley's Harvard career came in the 'thirties. The depression gave numerous opportunities to sport with President A. Lawrence Lowell. Distressed to note that the 1931 Harvard-Army football game was to be played at the Cadets' small field, Mayor Curley pressed President Lowell to move the game to Yankee Stadium, with the extra proceeds going to the City of Boston for its unemployed. When Lowell protested that a Harvard team could play only on a college field, Curley arranged for Boston College to play Holy Cross at Harvard Stadium...
Back in the hey-day of the New Deal, it was almost the height of fashion for bright young Harvard men to go trooping off to Washington upon graduation. But today the traffic is no longer all one-way. In an educational version of "massive retaliation," steadily increasing numbers of career government servants are converging on Cambridge every year, most of them to pursue studies of one kind or another at the Littauer School of Public Administration...
...spite of a string of poor football teams, Davidson men have still continued to support the Wildcats with the same fervor that marked the hey-day of football at the little Southern school back in the '30s. Everyone goes to the home games, and many men follow the team on the conference road trips...
They say that Curley uses a different side of his mouth for either side of Beacon Hill. In his hey-day, he had the cultured charm in his voice of the highest rank of Brahmin, yet, on the same night, he could go across the Hill to the North End and deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward...
...days ago, the House un-American Activities Committee, which Martin Dies commanded in its hey-day from 1938 to 1944, announced that it was going to poke its nose into school and college textbooks. The Committee doesn't plan to learn anything useful from this excursion; it just wants to see if any Bolshevism lurks in these volumes...