Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcycle policeman raced his engine and moved menacingly toward the mob. "They used to use horses in the old days," shouted a greyhaired man with a Furcolo button...
...gubernatorial race, 251 said they would vote for Foster Furcolo, 198 for Sumner Whittier and 130 undecided. Two favored incumbent Christian A. Herter'15, who is not running...
This manifest ambition has caused Republicans as well as Democrats to be somewhat restive about their young David. But when Whittier's impending nomination for the governorship caused a split in the state GOP early this summer, considerations of practicality resolved the issue. Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats...
Much of Whittier's popularity, on the other hand, is due to his extreme tact. Boston newspapers have painted him as an attractive young liberal, while they have grown increasingly hostile toward Furcolo. A much more reserved campaigner than Whittier, Furcolo often appears more self-conscious than confident. But a reconciliation with popular Sen. John F. Kennedy '39 and the extensive efforts of his party's bush beaters managed to give the Longmeadow lawyer an almost 3-to-1 victory in last month's Democratic primary...
...Furcolo's margin of victory, in a primary where more than two-thirds of his party participated, is taken as an encouraging sign by Democrats bent on recapturing Beacon Hill. With Democratic registration up 60,000 over 1952 and GOP totals down by 7,000, the Democrats are looking forward to an election in which their party regularity will be a significant asset. But the members of each faction total only 700,000 each in a constituency of two and a half million registered voters, so the independent--who in Massachusetts is typically the sought-after member of an ethnic...