Word: dever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, the temptations to play this state's peculiar political games are strong, but the test of a candidate's value comes in how well he emerges from the pork-barrel pulls. Furcolo, identified with patronage of former Governor Paul Dever, is clearly not the intellectual equal of Christian Herter or John F. Kennedy. But on the basis of his superiority over his Republican opponent--Furcolo draws our qualified endorsement for the Governorship...
...graduated from Yale Law School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, in 1954 by only...
Whittier's ambitions for the governorship have been publicized since 1950, when Dever won his second term. An excellent orator and clever platform speaker, he became the Republicans' chief critic of the Dever Administration, attacking the Governor from the floor of the State Senate and in every possible headline for inefficiency and corruption. Dever once became so incensed with the young senator that he barred him from the Governor's office...
...House and through every sizeable Massachusetts city and town. His unsuccessful 1954 opponant for re-election, James A. Burke of Hyde Park, charged then that Whittier was the "most expensive Lieutenant Governor the state has ever had. He has turned the office into a publicity mill," Burke said. And Dever, biting back at Whittier before a recent Truman testimonial dinner, said, "You have your Nixon on the national scale. We have our Whittier in Massachusetts. They are counterparts...
Massachusetts (40): All for Favorite Son John McCormack on the first ballot, with indications pointing toward a later, sizable shift to Stevenson, who has the support of U.S. Senator John Kennedy and former Governor Paul Dever...