Word: warded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning to be dishonest. Curley, at the outset of his career, fell in the middle. He was a politician, and therefore cunning, almost from the beginning, but in contrast to the previous ward leaders he demanded that his constituents get something for their vote. Eventually, after numerous intermediate positions of ward leadership, this policy led him to his first term as mayor...
...Curley so popular? The big reason is his colorful individuality. When he first ran for mayor, he bolted every other ward boss in the city--a trick commonly 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...
...deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward workers for a campaign...
Plan E provides that the city council and school committee be elected by proportional representation. Instead of choosing one candidate in a ward, the voter rates candidates in order of preference with first place votes, of course, counting highest in tabulation...
...Crosby Forbes '50 and Rapaport are members of the speakers bureau for the entire Hynes campaign. On call to speak in their candidate's behalf at any time, the pair has been used only infrequently. Forbes, however, spoke at a reception for the voters in Ward Five at the campaign's outset. Ward Five includes a great portion of Beacon Hill where Forbes himself comes from. Rapaport speaks almost constantly from the sound truck when the squadrons go out in the evening and somewhat less often to student groups at the different schools. Last week he addressed the Dunster House...