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...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...
...member General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God, an evangelical church with some 1,000,000 members, met in Springfield, Mo. and unanimously adopted a resolution opposing a Roman Catholic as President of the U.S. ¶Ex-Ballplayer Jackie Robinson joined the campaign retinue of Vice President Richard Nixon as a speechmaker and Negro policy adviser. The Kennedy-leaning New York Post promptly withdrew Robinson's daily column from circulation for the duration of the campaign. Robinson, still a big hero among millions of U.S. Negroes, has long needled Jack Kennedy for not being as fervently in favor...