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Mayor James M. Curley was compared to a "Nambikuari chieftain" by Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Social Psychology, yesterday afternoon, Bruner addressed the Social Relations Society on "The End of Bossism?"
The chief of the Nambikuaris, a South American tribe, governs the tribe much as Curley runs Boston, he explained. The chief keeps his subjects in line by "being a good guy" and by "constantly handing out" trinkets, bits of food and other favors.
Bruner said that he had discovered this tie in
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