This city's North End was once wrecked by the (*) bursting of a large vat of molasses, and an aforementioned 1919 police strike in this city was put down by Calvin Coolidge.
A former mayor of this city, Edwin Upton Curtis, successfully thwarted an attempt by public sector employees to join the AFL. In the early twentieth century, this city was controlled by four-time mayor James Michael Curley, and later in that century its underworld came under the domination of the Winter Hill Gang. Prominent families like the Welds were dubbed the Brahmins of this city in the nineteenth century. This city's North End was once wrecked by the (*) bursting of a large vat of molasses, and an aforementioned 1919 police strike in this city was put down by Calvin Coolidge. Residents of this city dressed up as Mohawk Indians and destroyed the cargo of ships like the Dartmouth in a noted 1773 event. For 10 points, name this city home to a famous Revolution-era Tea Party.
A former mayor of this city, Edwin Upton Curtis, successfully thwarted an attempt by public sector employees to join the AFL.
{Boston}, {Massachusetts}