Word: fingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales tax, and certain scandals in his administration were revealed. A floor fight for the Democratic Attorney General nomination had raised the issue of bossism and threatened to turn the Convention into a free-for-all. The Republicans were convinced that they had the issues and the candidate--George Fingold, the only man to survive the 1956 Democratic sweep...
Suddenly all this changed on September 1, when, as the Boston Globe headlined, "Fingold Drops Dead." With the primary eight days away, the GOP found itself without a candidate to head the ticket, and, moreover, without a single incumbent on the entire state-wide slate...
Died. George Fingold, 49, attorney general of Massachusetts, Republican nominee for governor in the coming November elections; of a heart attack; in Concord, Mass. The new nominee is onetime Massachusetts house of representatives Speaker Charles Gibbons, 57, who irritated his colleagues last spring when he refused to become "a sacrificial lamb" by running for U.S. Senator against John Kennedy...
...Foster Furculo, 46, who will be another hard man to beat, the G.O.P. skipped over Christian Herter Jr. -son of the U.S. Under Secretary of State and onetime Massachusetts Governor-who was willing to tackle the job (TIME, Jan. 20), instead picked a longtime officeholder, State Attorney General George Fingold, 49. of Concord. Mass. Herter's consolation prize: candidacy for Attorney General Fingold's job. Republican consensus: 1) primary troubles in the gubernatorial runoff between Fingold and Charlie Gibbons. 2) lamb stew for Vincent J. Celeste in the senatorial elections. Reason: Massachusetts' fairy godmother is no Republican...
...other local races, it seems to be a toss-up between Republican Charles Gibbons and his opponent Robert Murphy for the post of Lieutenant Governor. In the contest for Attorney General, incumbent Republican George Fingold must rule the slight favorite over Boston City Councillor Edward J. McCormack. However, the Democrat has the support of Senator Kennedy, a strong voice in state politics, and his uncle, House Majority Leader John W. McCormack...