Word: ward
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Fullbacks Lou Williams and Nat Emmons and goalie Wally Whitney did a fine job in holding Brown's heralded Alan Young scoreless, and Bill Ward played a solid game at center half. Wing John Thorndike, in his second game since recovering from a broken leg, notched the Crimson's other tally
...race with Joseph D. Ward, Volpe concentrated his attacks on the supposed dishonesty of the Democratic administration, of which Secretary of State Ward was a part. In one speech at B. U., Volpe said, "There are three issues in this campaign--corruption, corruption, and corruption...
...opponent, Ward, seemingly was endowed with the same sort of explosive with the same sort of explosive nature, for the gubernatorial race was the only contest in Massachusetts that was really marked by bitterness and good old-fashioned mud-slinging. Volpe's position as a prosperous contractor left him open to attack from the Ward side, and he replied in kind...
...noon the Democratic rally, a traditional part of the day before an election, began in front of the State Court House in Pemberton Square. It was a small and private affair at the beginning. "High Hopes" blasted uncertainly from speakers decorated with "Have a Heart, Vote Ward" posters. "You'd have to have a hole in your head," muttered someone. He was in the minority; by one o'clock about two hundred people were gathered around the emblazoned campaign trucks--a few of them with Kennedy, Ward, McLaughlin, White, McCormack, Driscoll, and Buckley ribbons down their chests...
Most of the participants in the rally were judges, attorneys, and messenger boys, not too happy about the 35-degree cold and giving up their lunch-hours, but full of Democratic jocularity. "Attaboy, Julius," somebody cried as Julius Ansel, State Representative from the 14th Ward, got up to speak. "The dirtiest approach ever," he called Volpe's tactics. "He advocates closing the Boston Hospital while he sits in his mansion in Winchester, enjoying his wealth. SHAME on that man." As for Volpe's allegations concerning Ward, he had only to say, "There sit Ward's seven daughters at home...