Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George C. Lodge '50 last night opened what was billed as "a discussion of public morality, not a campaign debate" by implicitly charging Edward J. McCormack, State Attorney-General and Lodge's possible opponent for a U.S. Senate seat, with lax enforcement of anticorruption statutes...
...Blame cannot help but fall on those who occupy offices in the field of law enforcement," Lodge continued, evidently referring to McCormack, who as Attorney General is in charge of prosecuting violaters of bribery and conflict-of-interest laws...
...McCormack opened his rebuttal by decrying the "atmosphere of a revival meeting" which surrounds much of the discussion of Massachusetts corruption. "Histrionic charges only create difficulties and prevent effective enforcement," he said...
...Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
Summoning the Sick. As the time for the critical votes approached, House Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert began working late into the night in rounding up their troops...