Word: deverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former Massachusetts Governor Paul A. Dever will speak on "Democratic Prospects in 1954" at a meeting of the Harvard Young Democratic Club tonight at 7:30 in the Lamont Forum Room...
...Dever, who was defeated two years ago by Christian A. Herter '15 in his attempt to retain the governorship, has since reopened his law practice with offices in Boston and Washington...
August: The Democratic Senatorial primary fight in Massachusetts will find James M. Curley calling Paul A. Dever a "leftist." After Dever wins, the two will make up, and decide that the real "leftist" is Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
...next year is State Treasurer Foster Furcolo. He is the top Democrat in state-wide office, which is a talking point. And he has both Irish and Italian parentage, something for which most Massachusetts Democratic politicians would gladly give their legitimacy. But when Furcolo began to circulate among the Dever-men who will name next year's candidate, they shook their heads sadly. Foster, they say, had too many connections with Americans for Democratic Action...
That Indefinable Something. Herter's election last fall was in itself something of a political miracle. The man he defeated was, politically, as symbolic of life in Massachusetts as the baked bean, the sacred cod and the Bunker Hill Monument. Portly Democrat Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that...