Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
Morris E. Hurley, Jr., Berkeley, Calif.; Frank B. Jourdan, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; James D. Justice, Logansport, Ind.; Malcolm G. Leybourne, Tippecanoe City, Ohio; Robert B. Loftfield, Euclid, Ohio; Duane B. Lueders, Henning, Minn.; James W. Morrison, Jr., Portland, Ore.; Mortimer S. Rayman, Chicago, Ill.; George F. Snell, Jr., Takoma Park, Md.; George R. Strange, Chicago, Ill.; Joseph H. Summers, Madisonville, Ky.; and James W.L. Moukman, St. Paul, Minn...
...nice to give them all a chance," presented more serious difficulties, which, however, if insoluble, could be passed on to those in attitude was taken by an elderly woman who fortified herself by saying that "Curley has been in there too long. It was no use explaining that Hurley and Curley were not the same...
Sullivan attributes his defeat to "too much Republican money" and Curley's weakness as head of the state ticket. "The Republicans were smart," he explained. "They knew Hurley would be a harder man to beat than Curley, so they pushed him out in the primaries...
...remainder of the slate, Cahill for Lieut. Governor, Cook for Secretary of State, and Hurley for Treasurer, was elelected over the Republicans...