Word: parkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 200 undergraduates will act as checkers at the polls today for John Parkman '05, candidate for Mayor of Boston. As watchers in the various precinets, they will attempt to prevent any fraudulent voting...
Heading the work at the Parkman Headquarters in Boston is Laurence Curtis '16, member of the City Council and the State Legislature. In a brief address last night in Leverett House, Curtis outlined the phases of the work for which the checkers will be responsible today...
...past may find itself in the dizzy position of holding the balance of power. The bloc of votes which have meant victory in the past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman has the record of being a political giant-killer and his experience as a dock foreman combined with political astuteness make him a vote-getter among the working classes. Mansfield points justifiably with pride to his 90-odd thousand votes against Curley last election. Last minute dopesters say Foley's loss...
...problem is City of Sacred Cod. Some say Parkman is best candidate in any Mansfield, but others are Foley convinced it will be survivor of Fighting Irish trio of Foley, Sullivan, and Eleven-reasons O'Connell. Then, too, there is the chance of people dropping lead Nichols in the slot today, but the ex-G.G.A. Man's going to lead the Field...
...opportunity to "turn the rascals out," to elect a man of vigor, honesty, and political intelligence. The Boston decision will be one of the closest in history no matter which way it goes. The politically-minded Irish, strange to say, are more than partial to the two best candidates, Parkman and Mansfield. If the voters use their chance stupidly or do not use it at all Boston will probably go bankrupt, higher taxes will drive still more large firms into the suburbs. More pathetic, welfare and city workers will become political slaves...