Word: cabots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanied by senior Massachusetts senator David I. Walsh, currently running for re-election against Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, Governor Tobin shared the platform with eight local Democratic candidates including Morris Allen, who is opposing Republican Edith Nourse Rogers. Evading a question concerning the right of Communists to hold labor union office, he would only state that, "A Communist cannot be a good American...
...point trying to interest the voters until Boston got over its World Series (see SPORT). But the key to the election is Boston and its agile Mayor Jim Curley, who dislikes old (73) Senator David Ignatius Walsh almost as much as he does 44-year-old Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. If Jim Curley does not line up Boston's machine and heavy Catholic vote for jowly Dave Walsh, a Republican trend among independents could easily put Lodge over. In any event, Lodge has a good chance to return to the Senate seat he resigned...
...landslides, as in the case of the venerable Frederick W. Cook, Republican, who has been Secretary of State perennially since 1921. Or loyalty can propel a man into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...
...fill retiring Representative Clare Boothe Luce's spot on the ticket, the G.O.P. picked handsome John Davis Lodge, 42, onetime cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was elastic enough to play Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel and Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress. He decided in favor of politics while serving overseas with the Navy...
...Francis Cabot Lowell, Harvard 1793, half-brother of "Rebel" John. He went into trade: cotton-cloth manufacturing. Greenslet calls him "the first educated man ... to expend his whole energy in organizing and improving the industry." Lowell, Mass, is named...