Word: mccormack
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Teddy Kennedy was still favored to win Massachusetts' Sept. 18 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate nomination, but Eddie McCormack seemed to be having more fun. Right next to Teddy's headquarters, Eddie opened his own digs. Teddy's banner proclaims that HE CAN DO MORE FOR MASSACHUSETTS. Eddie ("THE QUALIFIED CANDIDATE") insists in small window signs that HE HAS DONE MORE FOR MASSACHUSETTS THAN THE MAN NEXT DOOR. And Eddie's aides were thinking of inviting the voters to sing along with them to the tune of Billy...
Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
Other Harvard Professors backing McCormack's candidacy include, Professors Herbert Dieckmann, Stanley Cobb, Serge Chermayeff, Wiktor Weintraub, John R. Raper, and Bernard Budiansky. Two other Harvard academicians for the Massachusetts Attorney General are Nicholas Wahl, Assistant Professor of Government, and Benjamin W. Labaree, Assistant Professor of History...
Last Wednesday, Howe, who has been the most active of the faculty members supporting McCormack, appeared on a local television station and claimed that "Teddy's candidacy has done almost irreparable damage to the President's good name...
Howe went on to ask Republicans to cross party lines on the primary and vote for McCormack. He termed Kennedy's candidacy "an affront to political decency...