Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the cheers of Democrats, many of whom took a dim view of him two years ago because he seemed overambitious, fiery Foster Furcolo, 45, stormed back to center stage in Massachusetts politics last week. Everybody had expected Ex-Congressman (1949-52) Furcolo to win nomination as the party's candidate for governor, but nobody had expected a landslide. Furcolo, running strongly in nearly every precinct in the state, won going away with 357,409 votes, to only 131,875 for his primary opponent, able former State Auditor Thomas H. Buckley. In a comparatively light vote, Furcolo...
...Italian father and Irish mother, Furcolo came within 29,000 votes of upsetting the G.O.P.'s blueblooded Senator Leverett Saltonstall in 1954, despite the fact that influential Democratic Senator John Kennedy refused to take a stand against Saltonstall. This year, promised campaign support by the ever more powerful Kennedy, Furcolo is given a fighting chance to beat the Republican nominee for governor, smart, aggressive Lieut. Governor Sumner Whittier...
...their elation over Furcolo's prospects, Massachusetts Democrats shifted uneasily over another primary result: Congressman Tom Lane, only two weeks out of a federal prison, where he served a four-month term for income-tax evasion (TIME, Sept. 17), easily won renomination over four opponents in the Seventh Congressional District. The Democratic fear: Lane's name on the ticket may drain votes away from an otherwise strong slate...
Kelley spoke at a Democratic Club forum, held at Winthrop House, on "The Ethics of Lobbying." Other speakers were Foster Furcolo, a leading candidate for the Democratie gubernatorial nomination, and Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government...
...Furcolo recalled his experience in the House of Representatives and said that lobbying as a whole is in the public interest. "Lobbying can be very helpful if some method can be devised whereby the person lobbied always gets both sides of the picture." he said. Furcolo called for the establishment of "congressional councils" made up of constituent groups to advise Congressmen on pending legislation...