Word: deverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gubernatorial candidate Christian Herter he described as a "wise, conservative gentleman and scholar. Dever is a plain front man for a bunch of thugs and robbers...
...wide open battle over state offices seems certain when the Liberal Union meets tonight to endorse candidates for the November election. Supporters of Governor Paul A. Dever, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '23 and Representative John F. Kennedy, Jr. '40 are ready to state their cases before the meeting. Many members believe the Liberal Union should make no gubernatorial endorsement...
Massachusetts politicians, however, differentiate sharply between the racial groups making up the state's Catholic population. Most numerous are the Irish (750,000 or more), who are also the staunchest Democrats. Republicans have had the most success with the increasingly important Italians (300,000), but Democratic Governor Paul Dever has been working hard to mend his Italian fences...
...Governor: Democrat Dever, 49, who is generally conceded to be one of the smartest politicians ever to sit on Beacon Hill, is a moon-faced bachelor with a hearty Irish smile. During his two terms as governor, he has loaded the state payroll with his supporters and has thereby created Massachusetts' most formidable personal machine. Dever can and does point with pride to a $400 million highway program and construction of schools, hospitals and public housing. But many Massachusetts TV owners who watched the corpulent governor keynote the Democratic National Convention were distressed at his resemblance to any cartoonist...
...Dever's Republican opponent, Congressman Christian Herter, 57, has an excellent record as a leader of Republican internationalists in the House of Representatives. In his campaign Herter has put great emphasis on informal gatherings, and cannot hope to match the old-school political oratory which will be unleashed when Paul Dever's campaign gets fully under way. In an effort to keep Irish, Italian, Polish and French-Canadian voters away from Herter, Democrats have labeled Herter a "Yankee," which in the strict New England sense he is not; his paternal grandfather came from Germany and he was born...