Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Furcolo's appointment last week of a seven-man commission authorized by the 1957 Legislature to study the question of capital punishment may eventually spell the beginning of the end for that penalty in the Bay State. If abolition is realized, it will be a much-delayed step towards modernizing our penal codes...
...Foster Furcolo, governor of Massachusetts LL.D...
Lady Jackson and Panofsky will deliver the major addresses at this afternoon's meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Pusey, Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo, and Alumni President George Whitney '07 will also speak...
...Everything. Such Democratic governors as Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff and Massachusetts' Foster Furcolo are having enough trouble defending their own budgets without having congressional Democrats throw economy curves. Says a Furcolo friend: "Poor Eisenhower. Poor Furcolo. They're both really in the same jam." Then he adds: "It will turn out to be suicide if they [the congressional Democrats] destroy the party's longstanding program and adopt shortsighted economy just because they want to squelch Eisenhower." Says an Illinois leader: "Our party ought to be in there fighting to save the defense and foreign-aid budgets...
...week ago tonight four august figures--Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Foster Furcolo, and the spirit of Alben Barkley (represented by Mrs. Barkley)--gathered together, and held what might be called a minstrel show. Its purposes were twofold: to help pay Democratic campaign deficits and, in passing, to give Eisenhower a few licks. We don't really object to either of these enterprises, but we were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats...