Word: deverism
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Crimson hockey received a much needed boost last weekend when Governor Paul A. Dever announced the signing of an agreement between the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works for the use of an ice-making plant to serve the Boston Garden...
...Tale of Two Cities summed up pre-French Revolution feeling with this sentence: "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us." The CRIMSON wonders if Massachusetts voters do not face the same problem in the state's gubernatorial contest. The contenders are hefty incumbent Governor Paul A. Dever, seeking a third term, and Congressman Christian A. Herter...
...impassioned Democrat, Dever has everything to offer: he has supported much of Massachusetts' progressive labor legislation, built badly-needed roads, and subsidized the construction of local schools with state money. To the ardent Republican though, he has done nothing good at all. For him Deverism equals corruption, bloated expenditures, incompetent administration...
Christian A. Herter, to the banner-waving Democrat, is a Beacon Hill aristocrat who, as Dever said recently, has "no more understanding of the problems of the men and women who must work for a living than a blind man of colors." But to the Republican, perturbed about innumerable men clocking cars on useless roads during the campaign, Herter will cut down pregnant payrolls...
...Dever has been held in generally low esteem by many Liberal Union members since last October when he secretly signed the McCarthy Dorgan anti-subversive bill on the very day that the Liberal Union had sent him a petition urging veto. The petition was signed by 1000 students. The large amount of sentiment for Senator Lodge was unexpected in view of the group's endorsement of Kennedy for Congress two years...