Word: devere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five, Charles E. Beveridge, Peter D. M. Pereira, Arthur B. Ellison, Stephen Shohet and Rector K. Fox were arrested after allegedly participating an election eve "anti-Dever riot" on Cambridge Common...
...which had gathered on the Common near a searchlight truck on Garden St. The crowd was shouting obscenities "not fit to be heard in open court," Murray said. He later arrested Ellison as the student ran toward the entrance of the Commander Hotel, crying "Let's break up the (Dever) rally...
Massachusetts. Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, keynoter at his party's convention last July, was beaten in a close race by Republican Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter. The governor-elect is 57, a Harvard man, married to the granddaughter of Charles Pratt, a partner of John D. Rockefeller the elder and one of the founders of Standard Oil. Herter, an able internationalist who did a stint with the State Department (Berlin, Brussels and Washington, 1916-19), once dabbled in publishing (Independent and Sportsman magazines), served in the Massachusetts legislature and has been in the U.S. Congress since...
Massachusetts. Paul Dever, the Democratic incumbent and the hoarse, perspiring National Convention keynoter, found himself in a seesaw battle with Republican Congressman Christian Herter. Dever's great strength was in Boston, which he carried by more than 120,000 votes (while Stevenson was carrying it by only 65,000). But it was not quite enough. Scholarly Christian Herter carried the state by more than...
...evidence, we need only point to the cities like Boston, where there are many Catholic voters present, voters particularly sensitive to this issue. Boston, while supporting local aspirants Dever and Kennedy handsomely, helped sound the death-knell of Stevenson's candidacy. In Chicago, too, the local Democratic office-seeker, Dixon, fared better than his one-time boss. Moreover, reversing this analysis, a metropolis like Philadelphia, whose Catholic population looms less weighty in the vote tallies, and Pittsburgh like it delivered up their overwhelming Democratic majorities as usual. Clearly, it was the Reds-in-Government issue that caused this...