Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party nominated Furcolo for Senator. He was soon challenged, however, by the young upstart mayor of Springfield, Thomas J. O'Connor, who waged a vigorous, albeit inexpensive campaign. The mayor's cause was aided immensely by exposes of governmental corruption. The State Department of Public Works received its quadrennial lambasting more severely than usual. The Metropolitan District Commission was investigated by a legislative committee, whose proceedings were enlivened by one witness's reported refusal to accept a summons. The witness was an important Democratic member of the House associated with Furcolo...
...Kennedy, according to one informal straw vote aboard the Nixon press plane. But most reporters insist they know how to separate their own convictions from their reporting, and say that Nixon's assistants are too ready to find real or imagined injury. In Springfield, Mo., after Reporter Potter asked what Klein considered a deliberately needling question, Klein sent an angry protest to Potter's publisher. Klein was also disturbed by a magazine article over the wardrobes of the candidates' wives: he thought the caption, "Pat v. Jackie," should have read "Jackie...
...CRIMSON endorses O'Connor's candidacy for Senator. As mayor of Springfield, he has worked energetically for urban renewal and civic reform, reinvigorating this tired city while cutting taxes. He has demonstrated an ability to learn and to grow in office--an attribute regrettably not shared by his opponent, Leverett Saltonstall...
...year-old Democratic mayor of Springfield stopped at the "O'Connor for Senator" headquarters on Palmer St. behind the Coop for a stinging four-minute speech at 2 p.m. Before several office girls hanging out of windows and a handful of expressionless passers-by, O'Connor labeled Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, "an ultra-conservative who advocates maintaining the status...
...complete charge of the campaign in the four precincts adjacent to the University, in addition to the annual tasks of door-to-door and man-in-the-street canvassing. The club will meet in about a week for formal endorsements, but members expect to concentrate their efforts on supporting Springfield Mayor Thomas O'Connor's bid for the U.S. Senate...