Word: tobin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress, and a few scant hours after Boston's handsome young Mayor Maurice J. Tobin had been elected governor, Jim Curley announced that he would run for mayor in the upcoming special election. Salary of a Congressman: $10,000; of Boston's mayor...
...resigned. Said Mme. Perkins: "You don't do that at a Cabinet meeting. It's like brushing your teeth; you do it in private." For her place the guessers offered WMC's able, hustling Anna Rosenberg, or the Teamsters Union's rosy-jowled President Dan Tobin...
...State. The Democrats took over Massachusetts' gold-domed State Capitol. Tub-thumping Maurice J. Tobin, 43, Boston's mayor for the past seven years, an expert machine politician and personable Irishman, won by an F.D.R. coattail over the G.O.P.'s Horace Cahill...
Steve Early hotly denied having had a call from Dan Tobin, said he knew nothing of the brawl until called by newsmen. Lieut. Dickins, shown a picture of Dan Tobin, was unable to identify him as one of the brawlers...
...York, Dan Tobin called the whole thing "a criminal falsehood." Cried he: "This is a dastardly attempt to turn the services' vote against Mr. Roosevelt...