The civic conscience of Boston, like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks.
On All Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners. The salary: $7,000. In addition...
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