Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston. Upsetting all the predictions, Democrat John F. Collins, 40, wheelchair-ridden (polio) Suffolk County Register of Probate soundly (24,000-vote majority) whipped Democrat John E. Powers, 49, Massachusetts' Senate president, in a nonpartisan election. Though both candidates preached the same sermon-revitalize Boston's sagging economy-Underdog Collins made his gains by continuous attacks on Powers' massive political support ("Power politics"), which included the backing of Richard Cardinal Gushing and Senator John Kennedy. In the final week Collins capitalized on a published photo of a police-raided gambling house that was plastered with a Powers...
...mayoralty campaign between John E. Powers, president of the Massachusetts Senate, and John F. Collins, Suffolk County's Register of Probate, the issue of a dying city has nearly been forgotten. The campaign's chief feature, aside from a daily round of recriminations, is a simple pun, which Collins works to exhaustion...
Housing for University medical students met opposition yesterday when a Roxbury resident sought an order from Suffolk Superior Court to prevent a $2 million re-development in his neighborhood...
...more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary-and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with the Holy...
Swayed. In Bury St. Edmunds, England, when only eleven jurors filed out. of the box at West Suffolk quarter sessions court, Judge Gerald Howard took another look, spotted the twelfth juror sound asleep...