Word: chub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory this September of Lieutanant-Governor Francis X. Bellotti over incumbent Governor Chub Peabody for the primary nomination was an especially significant upheavel. Peabody, after a political career comprised primarily of defeats, squeaked into office in 1962 and proved to be an amazingly effective--and progressive--Governor...
Massachusetts: Complacent campaigning lost former Republican Governor John A. Volpe, 55, the 1962 election against hapless Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, who was dumped in the Democratic gubernatorial primary last month by his own Lieutenant Governor, Francis X. Bellotti, 41, father of twelve. Now working hard and aided by new corruption indictments of Democrats, Volpe holds a slim lead over Bellotti...
...political upset two years ago when everybody's 1941 All-America guard from Harvard, Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, was elected Governor of Massachusetts by a skin-thin margin over Republican Incumbent John Volpe. But there he was-tall, seedily handsome, fumbling through his prepared speeches as if he had just caught a linebacker's elbow between the eyes...
Still, Peabody was easily renominated at the state Democratic convention in July, beating out his own rebellious lieutenant governor, Francis Xavier Bellotti. But Bellotti, 41, a scrappy Quincy lawyer with twelve children, ignored his convention defeat, entered the Democratic primary against Chub, scrambled energetically over the state tightening ties with local Democratic organizations -something Peabody had ignored. On the stump, Bellotti boasted of his impoverished boyhood, proudly told Democrats: "My college education, my house, my car, everything that I am and have, came as a result of Democratic-sponsored social legislation...
...irony to Chub Peabody's humiliation, the unpurgeable Speaker John Thompson was renominated for his legislative seat-despite the fact that he was indicted in May on 70 counts of conspiracy and bribery...