Word: geoghegan
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Judge Haven Parker of East Cambridge District Court sentenced James H. Reeves to three months in jail and Henry A. Olson to one month on the charges, and fined Thomas B. Cook and William R. Geoghegan $300 apiece. All four verdicts were appealed...
Viola found probable cause Saturday for the Middlesex County Grand Jury to hear evidence against James H. Reeves of assault with intent to commit murder in connection with the shooting incident. Viola also found probable cause for the Grand Jury to hear evidence against Reeves, William L. Geoghegan, and Jill H. Wattenburg on charges of failure to have a firearm identification card...
Mike Harrington's majority in the 6th District was not as "strange" as Thomas Geoghegan would have it. Rather, it was a very logical majority that represents the only practical hopes for a shift to the Left in American polities...
...this respect, Mr. Geoghegan's somewhat patronizing comment that Mr. Harrington gained the support of labor unions by promising "to campaign for stricter import quotas on foreign manufactures" is very unfortunate. The largest union in this district, the Electrical Workers, is not in the slightest interested in this question. Mike Harrington got substantial union support because he was a liberal Democrat, and the labor movement wants to see more liberal Democrats in the Congress. The issues of full employment, rebuilding the cities, and eliminating poverty which the labor movement is concerned with are hardly "old politics...
...short, it does no discredit to Mr. Gilligan to recognize that the man who defeated him was and is an outstanding liberal and intellectual-- who happens to be a Republican. Indeed. Mr. Geoghegan should be glad that his next-door neighbor was defeated by a better man. Terry A. Barnett '67 2L Saxbe Research Director President, Ripon Society