Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts is no exception to this tradition of exploiting the body politic, even though this year both opponents are college trained. The issues that divide Democrat Foster Furcolo and Republican Sumner G. Whittier are essentially aged versions of the rallying cries of the last two decades--expanded social welfare legislation and the mismanagement of the other party's years in office. The campaign blueprints are the same too, although the candidates are both relative newcomers to the top level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor...
...state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, in 1954 by only 28,000 votes in a senatorial race so close that morning papers headlined a Furcolo victory...
Smiling down from the walls of Boston's John Hancock Hall were the faces of Adlai, Estes, Kennedy, and Foster Furcolo. The picture of the main speaker was a little gray and folded at the corners, but the crowd of some 1,500 was undismayed--they had come to hear Harry, and they hoped, to hear Harry "give 'em hell." At 8 p.m. all hell seemed to break loose, but it turned out to be the championship band from Dorchester's St. Williams...
There was much enthusiasm for Foster Furcolo ("symbol of democracy") and his wife (who sat on her mink stole). The high point of his speech came when he noted the high price of food and asked who got the profit. "Does the small grocer get the profit?" "NO!" cried the audience. "Does the farmer get the profit?" "NO!" "Then the question is, who gets the profit." My friend said, "That's a pretty damn good question...
Truman's talk provoked more than thirty "That's trues," which is more than Furcolo received. At the speech's close I asked my friend how the election would...