Word: furcolos
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...Governor Furcolo did not want to become Governor. He wanted to become a Senator. So how could he lose something he didn't run for? He lost in the primaries for Senator. I don't remember who he ran against.* I only know that Salty won the election, and he's no Democrat. I hope that you don't mind my correcting you, but someone is always correcting...
Several antiques from the 18th century remain us useless and costly impediments to efficient government. The colonials instituted the Governor's Council out of suspicion of George III's governors, but today no one considers Furcolo or Volpe despotic enough to merit such a millstone. Yet the Council remains, duplicating other posts, clogging bureaucratic channels and obstructing the chief executive. The county government as well (except for its courts) serves no purpose other than devouring the state's taxes...
...Hiss, adding that "Hiss could have been a little more grateful." For that kind of comment, Bundy had a run-in or two with the late Senator Joe McCarthy, who tried to get William Bundy fired from a CIA job. Another old foe is Massachusetts' ex-Governor Foster Furcolo, who denounced Bundy as "completely unqualified" for Government service-obviously in response to Bundy's 1958 gubernatorial campaign attacks. But Kennedy had other views, gave him the tough assignment of planning long-range policy for the National Security Council...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
When Smith showed up last week at Furcolo's office at the Governor's request to pick up his qualification papers, he was kept waiting for 2½ hours. Then a secretary told him that the Governor was ill at home ("I understand perfectly," said Smith); whereupon two women commissioning officers administered the oath of office. Next day Furcolo was back at work...