Word: devers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of the electorate, so too have their local disciples been revealed as thoroughly unrepresentative of university liberal opinion. On the other hand, the Liberal Union has quietly worked hard and long together with labor and ADA groups to help defeat and anti-labor referenda and elect Truman and Dever, without the undue fanfare and disproportionate publicity that the right and left extremes received. On Nov. 2, the state and nation turned to the "third force," its non-communist left, and the HLU "politicos" neither were "beaten" nor in "retreat", but, on the contrary, quite jubilant and appreciative. . . . Roy Gootenberg...
MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...
...Dever's campaign also involves the tricky Massachusetts Transit Authority question. He has accused the MTA--and Bradford--of hiding a $9,000,000 deficit and of jacking up fares. Dever says the Republicans have failed to supply the Commonwealth with cheap water power. Referenda 5, 6, and 7, the labor bills, are pet peeves of Dever, and he has criticized the Governor's support of a 2 percent sales...
Although Bradford has hollered less than ever this fall, he will be a tough man to beat. He ousted Maurice Tobin by 148,408 votes in 1946, and his record since then has been clean, if not startling. This does not mean he will breeze in, however. Dever has the political bright fortune to be a self-made man who worked his way through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent...
...Whether Dever can beat out Bradford is quite doubtful, but he cannot go far wrong. In the eyes of Massachusetts housewives he will take his place beside Pepper Young, Just Plain Bill, and Papa Goldberg as one of radio's daytime dream...