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This year's gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts is no exception to this tradition of exploiting the body politic, even though this year both opponents are college trained. The issues that divide Democrat Foster Furcolo and Republican Sumner G. Whittier are essentially aged versions of the rallying cries of the last two decades--expanded social welfare legislation and the mismanagement of the other party's years in office. The campaign blueprints are the same too, although the candidates are both relative newcomers to the top level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor...
...with a B.A. and a law degree, he was first elected to the Everett Common Council in 1938. He served in both houses of the General Court, and for a time was the State's youngest senator. Although he is a descendent of both John Greenleaf Whittier and Charles Sumner, he is not considered a "blueblood" by the Republican party regulars. But Whittier nonetheless puts to good use his residence in a three-decker apartment house in Everett, a declining lower-middle class suburb abutting Somerville. Before an urban audience, the campaigner calls himself a "three-decker Republican...
Since the end of slavery, Negroes on the whole have followed the advice of Du Bois and others to seek their goals "by every civilized and peaceful method." This is perhaps one reason why they have invalidated in large measure the famous dictum of William Graham Sumner that "Stateways can not change folkways." Even in the depth of the depression in the early 1930's, only about 2,400 Negroes joined the Communist Party. The loyalty of what has been America's most oppressed minority to the principles of democracy is not the least significant contribution of Negroes...
Abolitionist Charles Sumner, objecting to the treatment accorded Sarah took up her case. There was no 14th Amendment yet, but an 1845 state law had made it actionable to exclude any child unlawfully from public school. The case reached the State Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Shaw upheld the principle of segregation. His decision, in part, ran as follows...
...Senator Leverett Saltonstall in 1954, despite the fact that influential Democratic Senator John Kennedy refused to take a stand against Saltonstall. This year, promised campaign support by the ever more powerful Kennedy, Furcolo is given a fighting chance to beat the Republican nominee for governor, smart, aggressive Lieut. Governor Sumner Whittier...