Word: briens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...
...short, O'Brien, who is a strong Wallace supporter, is following his master's footsteps all the way down the line, and is getting all-out support of the Bay State Progressive machine for his troubles...
...Brien was also a teacher and trustee at the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies, which recently went out of business after being branded "an apparent adjunet to the Communist Party" by the Justice Department. It is probably such connections as this that led the Daily Worker to remark that an O'Brien victory "would be one of the most important Progressive victories in the nation," an accolade which the candidate hopes to balance off by his outspoken Catholicism...
Although O'Brien officially holds the Democratic nomination, his connections with the far left have resulted in his repudiation by many of the Democrats in his district. This has led him, either through choice or through necessity, to emphasize his Progressivism and use the Democratic nomination only for purposes of snaring straight ticket votes. Nevertheless, O'Brien rolled up a primary vote of almost 20,000, which Progressives consider very significant in view of the fact that he was unopposed. They feel that since 90 percent of the voters in the tenth district are in low middle or low income...
...Herter's record is not as bad as the Progressives try to make it. His domestic stand is along prevailing Republican lines, and this would be a bad enough accusation to alienate many of his constituents were it not for the question of foreign policy. Here again, O'Brien follows the Wallace line in condemning Marshall Plan administration, aid to Greece, Turkey and China, and the peacetime draft, which is almost certainly not the majority viewpoint in any district...