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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...
...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...
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...