Word: ex-governor
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...city--a trick commonly thought of at the time as political suicide. As soon as he was mayor, he jarred the banks by his out-of-town borrowing. He has made and broken political friendships with nearly everyone in Boston politics since 1900: Ely, Fitzgerald, Daniel B. Coakley, ex-governor Robert F. Bradford, Tobin and David I. Walsh. In no term as mayor has he built up a strong personal machine such as those operated in other cities by men like Hague and Prendergast...
...here that Lehman has the advantage. While Dulles has been attacking government spending, "statism," and his opponent's "communist" support, Lehman has gone along with President Truman's domestic policy all the way. The ex-governor and former director of UNRRA has defended the principles of the much-maligned "welfare state," and favors repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, extension of social security, and federal aid to education...
Tonight's celebrities at the much-publicized premiere include ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, John Mason Brown '23, critic Brock Pemberton, and professor John H. Finley, Jr. '25, master of Eliot House...
Gloria Swanson will not be at the opening, but critics John Mason Brown '23 and Brock Pemberton and producer Richard S. Aldrich '25 will attend. Other notables expected are ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, David Golding, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
...back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience wouldn't have it otherwise...