Word: tobins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
Over 400,000 voters had registered in October--some 25,000 more than ever before in Boston's history. Furthermore, Tuesday, election day, was fine and most of those registered could get to the polls. In the morning papers, Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the darling of Boston politics, came out in favor of John B. Hynes. By ten p.m. that night, James M. Curley, the aged and colorful ruler of the Boston political world, had been beaten by Hynes, the man who replaced him when he served his jail sentence...
...defeated that the burden of reform overwhelms the next mayor. The two men that shared the mayoralty with him during the Twenties, Malcolm E. Nichols and Andrew J. Peters, both left City Hall in near-disgrace while Curley re-emerged as the city's saviour. Maurice J. Tobin, who beat him in 1937 and 1941, seemed to be the only one who could lick the Curley curse; and the moment Tobin went up the political ladder, Curley sneaked in again in 1945 when the anti-Curley faction thought he would be a pushover for anyone who ran against...
...thought of at the time as political suicide. As soon as he was mayor, he jarred the banks by his out-of-town borrowing. He has made and broken political friendships with nearly everyone in Boston politics since 1900: Ely, Fitzgerald, Daniel B. Coakley, ex-governor Robert F. Bradford, Tobin and David I. Walsh. In no term as mayor has he built up a strong personal machine such as those operated in other cities by men like Hague and Prendergast...
...instance, was a "Waste Table" showing three or four items on the city books during the past administration which they claimed were a gross and extravagant loss to the city. In another column in the newspaper, the research group pointed out the facts and figures of Maurice J. Tobin's victory over present Mayor James M. Curley...