Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter pill to swallow for the hundreds of ironworkers, plasterers and plumbers who are milling around the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon. In fact, they rather like the idea, and don't hesitate to tell you why. It's a class war--the working man against the intellectual elite. Hatch's record as a state rep has been weak and they claim he has voted against labor at least 20 times. Ed King--he's a working class boy, and promises that he'll cut property taxes and bring jobs to Massachusetts. King talks a hard line and people believe...
...Sure the airport created noise. But there is something far worse than noise: it is the deathly stillness of the unemployment lines; the cruel punishment inflicted on a family by the burden of unemployment. Frank Hatch doesn't understand this; the Republican party never has; but this understanding is the core of the Democratic party...
...woman who will identify herself only as "a Truman liberal" explains why she will vote for Ed King. "People in labor just can't indulge themselves in the luxury of an intellectual...That's what Frank Hatch is. He has never been a hero to the liberal, and all of a sudden, since he and King won the primaries, Hatch has become this purist." She adds one final note of warning to her statement. "If Hatch becomes governor, it will be like a finishing school experience for the next four years...
...about 90,000 members of organized labor unions throughout the state. They smoke cigars and wear King/O'Neill buttons. They ask you who are you going to vote for and tell a reporter she looks like her Daddy has a lot of money. They don't like Frank Hatch because he is rich and he looks like a wimp. Massachusetts will be like Miss Porter's if Hatch gets his hands on it, they think...
...would be happening now. Remember, Ed King and his gang weren't quite sure they would be able to "Dump the Duke" or the "Dukakis Jewdiciary"--not quite sure because when it finally happened Ed himself looked pretty surprised. But they did it in a big way, leaving Frank Hatch to face a Democrat who drove people like his running mate, Tommy O'Neill, into complete silence. Frank Hatch was not prepared for the block of Democrats who were crossing over to endorse him. Quickly, a Democrats for Hatch Committee was formed by people like Barbara Ackermann, who also...