Word: potter
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...difficult for a Democrat to win in Boston without Republican support, it is inconceivable that any Republican can be elected without considerable Democratic backing. For this reason, Mr. Potter's reasoning is misleading and fallacious. It is true, as he says, that the Republicans with united effort could have gotten their five candidates among the top eighteen to qualify for the November final election to the City Council. Once nominated, however, the Republicans would have been sure to lose in November. Only 27,000 votes were needed to qualify a candidate in the recent primary but a candidate will need...
Fortunately, most Republicans realized that a partisan approach was doomed, and supported the candidates of both parties backed by the New Boston Committee. All of our candidates were nominated. The two Republicans supported by the NBC, Mr. Chase and Mr. Freidman, gentlemen about whom Mr. Potter obviously knows nothing, received very handsome support in most predominantly Democratic areas of the City...
...Council which include nine qualified gentlemen representing every geographical area and every prominent religious and ethnic group. We have candidates of both political parties and are trying our best to avoid favoring either Democrats or Republicans. In the narrow partisanship of the Republican City Committee warmly applauded by Mr. Potter we see one of the greatest dangers to the future success of our young organization.... James F. Ryan...
Some Notes on Lifemanship, by Stephen Potter. How to be a conversational cad (TIME, June...
Some Notes on Lifemanship, by Stephen Potter. How to be a conversational cad (TIME, June...