Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The last peace candidacy in Massachusetts, that of H. Stuart Hughes for the Senate in 1962, was assuredly not a traditional one. But for all the attention it received, Hughes polled only three per cent of the vote. Adams must lift the Hughes tally to at least ten per cent...
At the same time Adams has tactical advantages over Hughes. There was no war in 1962; consequently it was harder to convince voters of the importance of the peace issue. Hughes, moreover, had no base from which to build his campaign. Adams has an outfit called Mass Pax, or Political...
Approached last fall to seek the nomination, Thomas Boylston Adams--a member of the "royal line" that descends from John and John Quincy--agreed to run if $100,000 could be raised. George Somarippa, who had managed the Hughes campaign, set out to meet Adams' requirement, and in February it...
It soon became evident that workers from the main office would have to get out and join the signature drive or the campaign would end on July 17, the day the signatures are due. The office launched signature "blitzes" on Fall River, Lawrence, Brockton, Worcester and cities across the state...
His next difficulty lay in the fact that his volunteers tended to be more radical than he on domestic issues. The first piece of Adams literature identified the candidate as a "liberal Democrat" who would continue the domestic programs of Presidents Johnson and Kennedy. For most of the Hughes veterans...