In Boston last week Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley told a gathering of Democrats that he had spent $115,000 out of his own pocket to help carry Massachusetts for Roosevelt in 1932, had since been rewarded with not one Federal job to add to his patronage list. Declaring himself still a Roosevelt supporter, the bluff, red-faced Irish Governor, who is now a candidate for U. S. Senator, wistfully observed that it was one of the tragedies of politics that one was not always able to pay off political obligations.
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