Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amazed by their candidate's overwhelming defeat in the recent primary election and indecisive over a new course of action, Faculty followers of Edward J. McCormack expressed general dissatisfaction last night over the upcoming election for U.S. Senator. Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, indicated the confusion among the State Attorney General's former supporters when he said, "I just don't know what I'm going to do in November...
...second reason harks back to the Young Democrats' endorsement of Kennedy's defeated primary opponent, Attorney General Edward J. McCormack...
Sympathy Vote? But McCormack was implacable. Said he in his closing speech: "I worked my way up the political ladder. I'm not starting at the top. And I ask, since the question of names and families has been injected, if his name was Edward Moore-with his qualifications, with your qualifications, Teddy-if it was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke...
Nobody's laughing, because his name is not Edward Moore-it is Edward Moore Kennedy." Inevitably, in the debate's aftermath, everyone was arguing about who had helped himself the most. Since Kennedy had easily won the endorsement of the Democratic convention in June, McCormack had to use bold tactics in the primary fight. There were those who insisted that Eddie, by dramatizing Teddy's lack of experience in public office and by repeatedly hitting Teddy on the big-brother issue, had taken a stride toward victory in the Sept. 18 primary. There were others who believed...
...piety of any sort. "I," he announced at his first campaign press conference, "am an agnostic." Murmured a reporter in the audience: "There goes the ball game." In one striking respect, Hughes does resemble his rivals for John Kennedy's old Senate seat, Democrats Teddy Kennedy and Eddie McCormack, and Republican George Cabot Lodge, son of Richard Nixon's 1960 running mate. Hughes, too, is a scion; his father was once U.S. Solicitor General, and his grandfather was Charles Evans Hughes, onetime Secretary of State and Chief Justice...