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McCormack's decision to allow a suit in his name reversed the stand of his predecessor, George Fingold. Under Massachusetts law, a trustee may be sued for mismanagement only through the Attorney General unless he goes to court voluntarily. The Association for the Arboretum has charged in its publications that the Corporation "persuaded" Fingold...
...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...
...gubernatorial contest pits incumbent Foster Furcolo against Charles Gibbons, who became the party's rush nominee when Attorney-General Fingold suffered a fatal heart attack ten days before the primary. Gibbons, backed by thousands of dollars from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, is harping on the heavy state expenses in the last two years, and on the excessive state debt. The Republicans, however, are neglecting one point: most of the debt was incurred in the last two GOP administrations...
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...