Word: furcolo
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Much of this confusion resulted from lack of firm party direction. Governor Foster Furcolo spent the spring preparing for his hypothesized Senatorial battle against Leverett Saltonstall, and did not use his political influence effectively at the nomination convention. Memories of a 1958 split in the Democratic Party were exacerbated by the 1960 convention, memories that Furcolo did not mollify...
...Party nominated Furcolo for Senator. He was soon challenged, however, by the young upstart mayor of Springfield, Thomas J. O'Connor, who waged a vigorous, albeit inexpensive campaign. The mayor's cause was aided immensely by exposes of governmental corruption. The State Department of Public Works received its quadrennial lambasting more severely than usual. The Metropolitan District Commission was investigated by a legislative committee, whose proceedings were enlivened by one witness's reported refusal to accept a summons. The witness was an important Democratic member of the House associated with Furcolo...
Massachusetts. Outgoing Democrat Foster Furcolo's job is up for grabs. Both Republican John Anthony Volpe, 51, a prosperous contractor, and voluble Democratic Secretary of State Joseph Duckford Ward, 46, a dark-horse primary winner over six opponents, promise to bring back good clean government. Native Son John Kennedy's statewide lead gives Democrat Ward an advantage...
...Connor won the Democratic nomination in an upset victory over Gov. Foster Furcolo in the Sept. 13 primary...
...first time in history. As mayor, he put through a dynamic modernization and urban renewal program, reduced the tax rate. Billing himself as "Springfield's Great Young Mayor," O'Connor showed himself over and over again on TV and in the papers with the slogan "Fight Furcolo Fumbling," argued that only a vigorous, forward-looking candidate such as himself could beat Saltonstall. Last week Lev Saltonstall, 68, incumbent of 16 years, was beginning to run scared...