Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadmoor Businessmen's Association have nominated Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison our "Man of the Year...
When he was sent to prison for mail fraud last June, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley told the judge that he had at least nine serious ailments (gall bladder disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, etc.). "You are sentencing me," he said brokenly, "to death...
...after Thanksgiving, Curley went briskly back to City Hall and ousted Temporary Mayor John B. Hynes, who went gratefully back to being city clerk for life. Jim got right down to the business of spending $38,000,000 on projects which had been held up pending his return. Curley appointees had kept Hynes from spending more than was necessary...
Bored Bostonians raised no outcry, saw little that was reprehensible or even novel in Convict Curley's return to office. He had been in jail before; in 1903 he served 60 days for conspiring to defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston four times, governor of Massachusetts once and U.S. Representative thrice. Political observers, knowing that Jim was pouting because President Truman took so long to let him out this time, figured that the boss might fold his hands and sit out the 1948 campaign...
...statement made after "thorough investigation," the AVC cited Frank Boland, hotel manager, for breach of contract, Mayor Lynch of Cambridge for terming Boland's action "rugged Americanism," the Amvets, who threatened to picket the dinner 400 strong if it were held, and former Cambridge councilman Christopher Carolina for allowing his campaign sound truck to protest the gathering "without adequate investigation of the circumstances...