Word: furcolo
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Schlesinger assailed Democratic senatorial candidate Foster Furcolo and praised Democratic gubernatorial candidate Robert F. Murphy. Howe, meanwhile, urged the election of Furcolo, but endorsed Republican Christian Herter in his bid for re-election as governer...
...other speakers displayed an equivalent lack of unanimity, particularly in their views of the senatorial campaign, which has presented a dilemma for the A.D.A. state chairman LaRue Brown '04 denounced Furcolo. Hector M. Holmes '06, head of the Boston law firm, contented himself with endorsing Herter for governor. Joseph Cass, political action director of the state C.I.O. and the only non-A.D.A. member of the panel, completed the confusion by going down the line for the Democratic ticket...
...expected, the harshest words of the evening were reserved for Furcolo. "A vote for Foster Furcolo," said Schlesinger, "would be a vote for a young Pat McCarran in the U.S. Senate...
...voting record is not as good, he has served the Administration well in its battles with Republican isolationists of the inland states. On the whole, however, he has followed the Eastern Republican policy of talking internationalism while at the same time making cuts in foreign aid programs. Unlike Furcolo, he has followed projectionist principles in voting for import restrictions. Also, he has never supported extensive social and welfare legislation. In the last Congress, he voted to give the tidelands oil to the states, although Massachusetts would have benefited had the land remained under federal jurisdiction. Saltonstall also voted in favor...
Although Saltonstall is running against a candidate with a better voting record, his stolid dignity points up the politicking of his opponent. Furcolo can only be censured for his speech before the ADA last spring in which he advised the group to disband. Both candidates, indeed, could be criticized for not taking a stand against McCarthy. But while a man may be measured by these standards, a politician should not be. If Saltonstall had an equally good legislative record, he would be the better candidate. But a voter makes his choice on the basis of policy, not personalities. On such...