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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably...
Someone must replace James M. Curley as mayor of Boston. Not only has Boston lost much of its prestige by having a mayor who spent five months of his previous term in a federal penitentiary, but also it has suffered an enormous loss in dollars and cents from Curley's corrupt administration. Curley practices the philosophy of government that measures its own success by the quantity, never the quality, of the people it employs; disregarding cost, Curley has filled the city's departments with incompetents, sometimes vagrants, merely to keep his employment record high when the election comes around...
Pete was a good and faithful dachshund who slept a front of the fire every night, but he was far lighted. Every morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought...
...teams had never before come up to the game without at least one previous victory, but despite their poor records there was a certain tenseness in the Stadium. Something had to give; it turned out to be the Holy Cross defense...
...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...