Word: fitzgerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scuffle for election as U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth this year is a friendly one, devoid of low blows and rabbit punches. Neither Senator Leverett Saltonstall nor the challenger, John I. Fitzgerald, have called each other a spade, and whispers are currently inaudible. The two nominees are old friends, having served together in the State Legislature. Their sons served together overseas in World...
...these national issues he will be directly opposed by Fitzgerald, who has been endorsed by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. Fitzgerald, a former President of the Boston City Council and former acting mayor of Boston, is trying to pull Boston back into the Democratic column. He is campaigning for large federal education bill providing free lunches, medical aid, and transportation for sectarian schools; Saltonstall opposed this provision. In their foreign policy the two men are fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals...
...most heavily endowed of its kind in the U.S., will be open only to graduate physicians, dentists, nurses, and others trained for public health work, and will concentrate heavily on research in the field of industrial health. As to its opening date, Pitt's Chancellor Rufus H. Fitzgerald said: "The university would rather begin operation in 1950 with the best faculty in the world than in 1949 with the second best...
...before the convention was over, the Reds showed at least one sign of growing weakness. Though they rammed through resolutions opposing the election of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey, they stopped short of a formal pledge to Henry Wallace. Explained President Albert Fitzgerald frankly: "No presidential candidate we could endorse here today could have any other effect than to split the organization wide open...
James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O. and onetime U.E. president, was much better informed. Carey had been ousted from the U.E. presidency by the men behind Fitzgerald-Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and Organizing Director James Matles. He named them, along with Fitzgerald and the whole U.E. executive board, as men who "sacrifice the interests of the U.E. to promote the foreign policy of the Soviet Union...