Word: devere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keynote. At the Monday evening session, Massachusetts' Governor Paul Dever (rhymes with never) made the keynote speech. It was, in its way, a classic-the kind of old-fashioned political speech, as simple as a morality play, in which the forces of good (led by Archangels Wilson, F.D.R. and Truman) meet the forces of darkness, and thwart their plot to form atomic monopolies and maltreat widows and orphans...
...opponents," cried Dever, "brought forth in this building a shopworn declaration, conceived in malice and dedicated to the proposition that all the great achievements of the last 20 years should be swept away." As for the Republican nomination: "Was it a conflict over policies and philosophies? Was it an effort to replace the Old Guard with the new?" Not at all, said Dever. "This was a battle between the stalwarts and the opportunists. An ungrateful crew threw overboard the faithful pilot . . . and placed at their head one whose knowledge of navigation was confined to other waters . . ." Eisenhower, said Dever...
...Dever sweepingly claimed Democratic credit for the defeat of the Kaiser, Hitler and (somewhat prematurely) Stalin, and blamed all the U.S.'s foreign policy troubles on 1) the Republicans, and 2) "Russian perfidy...
...phantoms: apple sellers stood disconsolately around street corners, the bonus marchers once more tried to storm Washington, mean-eyed sheriffs foreclosed mortgages across the land. In the background there was a steady rain of statistics showing that everybody, including business, was infinitely better off than in 1932. "Suppose," Dever cried, "the dinosaurs of political thought came into power! . . . Suppose these rugged individualists abandoned the farmer to the ravages of uncontrolled free enterprise, and the toiler to the mercies of the sweatshop of former days...
William M. Rand '09, president of the alumni association will speak and Governor Dever will bring the greetings of the Commonwealth...