Word: deverism
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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...
These, however, are only surface issues. Behind the facade of party loyalty, neither group of adherents in entirely happy about its slate. While Dever may have been a success as a governor, his lieutenants, for whom he is responsible, have not done so well. Francis E. Kelly, his attorney general who is running for re-election, has been accused of bungling his investigations particularly the Brinks case and of allowing graft. When the lone Republican member of the Metropolitan District Commission requested a look into the Commission's files last month, the four Democratic members refused. The Republicans went...
...Republicans, on the other hand, cannot be completely satisfied with their nominations. Coolidge is quite old 69. His recent challenge of Dever to a foot race does not subtract from the importance of this fact. He is not, moreover, a widely-known candidate, although he was once lieutenant governor...
Right now the odds are about two-to-one for Dever, who received a majority of 389,000 in 1948. Most Republicans admit that Coolidge must fight such odds to stand a chance of winning. Unless the political picture changes before Tuesday, Massachusetts will have a Democratic governor for the next two years...
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...