Mayor James Michael Curley is convicted of mail fraud.

Inaugurated for his fourth term as mayor 11 days earlier, Curley is convicted because he had agreed to be listed as president of a company in which he played no role in exchange for a $3,500 loan. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. later calls the conviction “preposterous,” and says, “If he had been an ordinary citizen he would not have been sent to jail.” But after all his appeals fail, Curley is sentenced to serve 6-18 months in federal correction facility in Danbury, Connecticut on June 26, 1947.