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MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...
...evening were much more recognizable. Republican National Committeeman Sinclair Weeks, of the class of 1914, chairmanned the evening and spent considerable time by dumping carloads of superlatives over the heads of Senator Saltonstall, of the class of 1914, of Senator Lodge, of the class of 1924, and of Governor Bradford, of the class of 1923. Weeks also mentioned Joe Martin, North Attleboro High School, class...
Following Weeks to the microphones was the well-known Hibernian patriot, Henry Cabot Lodge, who told his rapt audience that Al Smith's entire family was voting for Dewey and Warren. Lodge then had several nice words for Senator Saltonstall, Governor Bradford and Mr. Weeks. On the way back to his seat, he also said that Joe Martin was a very fine fellow...
...Although Bradford has hollered less than ever this fall, he will be a tough man to beat. He ousted Maurice Tobin by 148,408 votes in 1946, and his record since then has been clean, if not startling. This does not mean he will breeze in, however. Dever has the political bright fortune to be a self-made man who worked his way through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent...
Whether Dever can beat out Bradford is quite doubtful, but he cannot go far wrong. In the eyes of Massachusetts housewives he will take his place beside Pepper Young, Just Plain Bill, and Papa Goldberg as one of radio's daytime dream...