Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a commonplace orator but he sensed the need for inspiring speech-making even before he was mayor. He studied nights under a Professor Staley at a public speaking school in Boston. Staley comments that Curley was so unrefined when he first went to the school that the young man had a very difficult time convincing the professor to keep him. Curley soon became Staley's best pupil, and even now, the teacher still sends written comments to the mayor on each of his speeches. What ever you would expect a politician to say in an address, you can rest...
Jerome D. Rapaport '49 is the leader of these nightly squadrons and the executive secretary of the larger Students with Hynes for Better Government group which includes all the activities of the young people who back Hynes. Rapaport was a Dunster House man in his undergraduate days hero, but made his name at the law school by helping to organize the Law School Forum...
Probably the greatest number of students worked in the office on Washington Street mailing out letters to all of Boston's young people. Some of the workers were not only carrying full schedules at their respective schools, but were also holding down part time jobs around the city; yet, these students, in the three or four nights that they put in a week, turned out some 30,000 to 40,000 letters...
...newspaper, itself, is undoubtedly a most helpful activity for the Hynes campaign in general. Named "The Young Citizen's Times," it has already been published once and will come out once more before the campaign is over. Already it has spread throughout the city and by the demand for it among the Hynes workers themselves, would seem to be very effective. James F. Ryan '49, and Marilyn Heins '50, of Radcliffe, along with O'Donnell have represented the Cambridge schools on the staff...
...Young Citizen's Times" is, of course, a partisan paper, printing the bulk of the material that Hynes is using as a weapon in his fight. Many of the columns in the first issue published figures charging maladministration, others discussed Hynes' life, still others were collections of pro-Hynes quips that have come up during the campaign's progress. One feature was a book review of "The Purple Shamrock" by Joseph F. Dinneen; another was a series of editorials trying to appeal to the younger voters...