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Whittier at 45 (the same age as Fucolo) has been a bright young lad in the Massachusetts GOP for many years. A graduate of Boston University with a B.A. and a law degree, he was first elected to the Everett Common Council in 1938. He served in both houses of the General Court, and for a time was the State's youngest senator. Although he is a descendent of both John Greenleaf Whittier and Charles Sumner, he is not considered a "blueblood" by the Republican party regulars. But Whittier nonetheless puts to good use his residence in a three-decker...
This manifest ambition has caused Republicans as well as Democrats to be somewhat restive about their young David. But when Whittier's impending nomination for the governorship caused a split in the state GOP early this summer, considerations of practicality resolved the issue. Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats...
Republican "prosperity", then, appears compounded of such vaporous stuff as loose credit, enormous debts, immense government costs, high prices, and a plethora of nonessential consumer items. Upon these deceptive indications of illusory wealth, the GOP now seeks another four years of power. On this record of manipulated facts the Party claims National prosperity...
...other side of the coin, private expenditure, came to an overwhelming $236 billion, which the GOP loudly hearalds as an indication that Rich America is growing richer and the standard of living is skyrocketing. The private debt for 1954, unfortunately, soared to its highest point in history. The non-farm debt reached an all-time peak, and the farm debt exceeded any since the bleak days of 1932. Naturally, the more you borrow the more you can spend. Under this truism, the Government and the public borrowed and spent more than they ever had before...
...higher, and whose incomes are lower, than they have been since the Depression; there are innumerbable small businesses that are struggling desperately to stay above water, caught between high taxes and high costs. Thus, while small business strains and the farmer sweats and the unemployed look elsewhere, the GOP shouts of a new era of gliter and polish...