Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's Massachusetts election boils down to a contest between two Democrats, both of whom are assured of reelection. Senator John F. Kennedy '40 has often commented "I am not running against Foster Furcolo;" however...
...fulsome female voice delivered these lyrics, along with much static, from a speaker truck plastered with Furcolo signs...
...crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard, top hat, and dark glasses. The sign was stapled over with dust jackets of The Last Hurrah...
This morning a broadcast from WBZ from UP announced that Governor Furcolo had ordered all official flags in Massachusetts to be flown at half-staff. This noon's broadcast explains that it was not the Governor but the Commissioner of Administration and Finance who ordered all Massachusetts state (not national) flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days. Through a telephone call to the United Press in Boston I have learned that the Commissioner issued this order to show respect to the late Pope Pius...
...another move to alleviate the Boston area parking problem, Governor Furcolo recently signed a bill providing for construction, maintenance, repair, and operation of a garage under the Boston Common and creating the Massachusetts Parking Authority...