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...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...
Discussing "Liberalism Reappraised," with Paul A. Dever, former Governor of Massachusetts, and Robert Brancher, professor of Law, the former Vice-President outlined three commandments for liberalism: There shall be freedom of expression; all humanity is one; and there must be a world government...
Quoting Anatole France, Lord Acton, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dever's speech was a vehement defense of the Democratic record and a denunciation of the "first hundred days" of the Eisenhower administration. "But," Dever said, "liberalism, like General MacArthur, will return...
...Dever said people are more secure under Democrats, the liberals, than under Republican rugged individualism. But Braucher countered that glorification of security is not liberalism. He said, "If man has the choice between freedom and peace, and chooses peace, he is not a liberal...