Maurice Tobin is elected mayor of Boston.

Tobin (D), with 105,212 votes, defeats James Michael Curley, with 80,376, Malcolm Nichols, with 55,247, William Foley, with 28,184, and others to be elected mayor. Turnout is 275,138 or 80%. The day before, the Boston Post ran two front-page “endorsements” of Tobin. In one, the newspaper describes him as “an honest, clean, and competent young man.” The other features a six-year-old quote by Cardinal O’Connell saying “The walls are raised against honest men in civic life,” which makes it appear that the cardinal is endorsing Tobin. The Boston Post distributed 30,000 free copies of the paper to people coming out of Mass on All Soul’s Day morning. As mayor, Tobin is a fiscal conservative who cuts expenditures even while trying to deal with the continued effects of the Great Depression. By this time, Tobin lives at 30 Hopkins Road.