Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last. In Bristol, Tenn., Kennedy's voice was icy. "I support the President." he said. "I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday." But the Nixon counterattack continued, and several reporters thought they saw a return of the old Nixon campaigning style. Kennedy, said Nixon in Springfield, Mo., "is just as strong in his opposition to Communism as I am, but because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he urged a course of action [for President Eisenhower to express regrets to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident] that would produce results that he would oppose...
...rare example of a candidate for statewide office campaigning for Harvard support, the Springfield mayor spoke before over 300 people at a Law-Graduate Democratic Club meeting at Harkness Commons...
...other political action, Thomas J. O'Connor, Mayor of Springfield and Democratic candidate for Senator, will address the Law-Graduate School Democrats. The talk is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Harkness Commons...
...amiss in Democratic Boston. Indeed, for hapless Foster Furcolo, something was amiss all over his state, and last week it was amiss by a mile: Furcolo, 49, running in the primaries for the Democratic senatorial nomination, got trounced, bounced, stomped and whomped by 35-year-old, crew-cut Springfield Mayor Thomas J. O'Connor Jr. In Boston alone, Furcolo lost by a staggering 10,000 votes...
Fleet-footed Tom O'Connor left nothing to chance. One of seven children of a milkman, O'Connor grew up in Springfield's "Hungry Hill" section, has battled his way through politics ever since he ran for (and won) the presidency of his junior high school student government. After Georgetown law school (1951), he served in the legislature for three terms, then beat a twelve-year incumbent in the Springfield mayoralty elections, carrying every precinct in the city for the first time in history. As mayor, he put through a dynamic modernization and urban renewal program, reduced...