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Jim Curley and His Gang
Lyons, Louis M. | April 29, 1936 issue

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The author says that times have changed since James Michael Curley floated into the governorship of Massachusetts on the strong U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tide. So ancient an issue as civil liberties has become a more controversial subject than at any time since Massachusetts won her emancipation from the Puritan theocracy of her first century. Civil marriage was brought to New England from old England as one of the sacraments of a free people. From the earlier Republican administrations it is a crude transition to the reign of Curley, who controls the commonwealth by means of the smallest and cheapest political heelers that ever shined their trousers in the seats of public office in Massachusetts.

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CURLEY, James Michael, 1874-1958; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; THEOCRACY; CIVIL rights; POLITICS, Practical; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States
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