Word: deverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts, the Republicans' spry old (69) ex-Lieut. Governor Arthur W. Coolidge reacted to taunts about his age by challenging his Democratic rival Governor Paul A. Dever, to a 100-yd. race. "And furthermore," said Coolidge (a fourth cousin of Calvin Coolidge), "I'll give him a handicap of a foot for each year of difference in our ages." Dever, a World War II naval officer who is 47 but notably on the portly side, did not choose to race...
Three College professors this weekend publicly supported Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever's financial program, claiming that he has spent funds wisely and that the state is getting more for its tax dollar now than ever before...
Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, and Samuel H. beer, association professor of Government, took this stand in a Dever campaign radio forum entitled, "The State of the Commonwealth...
Harris stated that "Under Governor Dever, the per capita state tax is only $69.53 while the national average is $81.12. While the per capita tax all over the country was rising 13.8 percent, in Massachusetts it rose only half that amount...
Harvard is once again represented in the race for governor of Massachusetts; Arthur W. Coolidge, a graduate of the Law School in 1906, is running on the Republican ticket opposing incumbent Paul A. Dever...