JAMES CURLEY DEAD
Colourful U.S. Politician (Rec. 8 p.m.) BOSTON (Massachusetts), November 12. Mr James Michael Curley, a Democratic leader for more than half a century, died today, eight days before his eighty-fourth birthday. Mr Curley served four terms as Mayor of Boston, one term as Governor of Massachusetts, and four as a member of the House of Representatives. Mr Curley served two terms in gaol—once for conspiracy for taking civil service examinations for another man, and once for a mail fraud. Born in Boston of Irish immigrant parents he had little formal education. But he was a great reader with a retentive memory and was able to punctuate his speeches with quotations from the classics. He was regarded as one of the last great orators o< American politics.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28743, 14 November 1958, Page 13
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