Word: mccormack
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Because the University is a charitable corporation, private parties cannot bring suit against it under Massachusetts law. In 1955, then Attorney General George Fingold refused to use his special powers to bring suit. However, after his death, Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. acquiesced and allowed the Information to be entered in his name...
...earned the speakership." When a speakership boomlet puffed up for Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma, Albert assured McCormack that he was not a rival...
About the only way that McCormack could fail to get the job would be if the Kennedy Administration were to go all out in opposing him-and that was the dimmest sort of possibility. As it happens, Jack Kennedy and John McCormack, both natives of Massachusetts, have never been very friendly, either politically or personally. But McCormack worked hard for President Kennedy's programs, with the single exception of the Administration's aid-to-education bill, which he opposed because it did not include assistance to parochial schools. There is some feeling that Roman Catholic McCormack...
Among dark-horse candidates for the speakership is Missouri's Representative Richard Boiling, a Rayburn protege and an influential member of the House Rules Committee. But McCormack, because of his age, is not likely to be a long-term Speaker-and Boiling, at 45, should have plenty of later chances. Another possible contender is Pennsylvania's conservative Representative Francis ("Tad") Walter, who is far more popular with Southerners than McCormack, and who has displayed impressive abilities as a House presiding officer. But the mere mention of Walter, one of the authors of the McCarran-Walter immigration...
Thus, come next January, there is every chance that John McCormack-the "archbishop" of the cloakrooms-will take up the gavel handled with such dexterity for so long by Sam Rayburn...