Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered to cough...
...finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have the option between integration or no school...
...city's supplies still have to cross that stubborn thumb of East Germany that separates Berlin from the West; one third arrives by rail, a third by truck, a third by barge. But governing Mayor Willy Brandt, a World War II resistance hero who looks as if he could fill the shoes of the late Bur germeister Ernst Reuter of blockade-days' fame, let it be known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three...
Died. James Michael Curley, 83, onetime top Democrat in Massachusetts (Mayor of Boston, Governor, Congressman); following surgery for an internal obstruction; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Last Hurrah. No resemblance to persons living or dead is intended, but patrons will be permitted to recall Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley who died last week at 83. With Spencer Tracy, being as lovable as any crooked politician in the history of the game...