Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, it has healed any rift which existed between the two men. A conflict in personalities and philosophies started several years ago when Kennedy was coming into national prominence and Furcolo was still a Congressman. At that time Furcolo told a gathering of ADA officials that the organization had outlived its usefulness and should disband. The Senator, as well as the ADA, was quite disturbed by this and let Furcolo know about it. Some people feel that Kennedy's subsequent failure to campaign was the cause of Furcolo's defeat in the 1954 Senatorial election...
McCormack has had governmental experience as President of the Boston City Council, but his name is not as familiar around the state as Herter's. He has denied the charge of bossism, and tried to patch up the party rift...
...highest intelligence in the city; the Cambridge board--with a few notable exceptions is representative of the less intelligent portion of the city. Both these groups are quasi-cliques; but the Newton committee has the full support of the community while the Cambridge board generally manages to create a rift with each important move it makes: the educated, PTA-supporting citizens on one side; the less well educated, anti-PTA citizens on the other...
...action, after hectic diplomatic activity in the Big Three capitals, threatened a major rift in the Atlanic Alliance at a time of critical new efforts to draw it closer together...
...rift remained until Friday, February 13, 1931 when Bingham and Dr. Charles W. Kennedy of Princeton decided to renew athletic relations between the two colleges in all sports except football. The decision had come as a result of student pressure from both Harvard and Princeton. Football relations were finally resumed and Princeton was scheduled for 1934. The Tigers won the first game, 19-0 and the next one 35 to 0 but the two colleges remained on friendly relations...