40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Kevin Vahey]

Leverett Saltonstall I suspect tried to distance himself from the whole H-T
mess because at the same time Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was
found to be accepting gifts from a Boston based textile manufacturer and it
turned out Adams was close to the H-T.

One thing is clear - the Kennedy's would not campaign against Saltonstall.
Election eve in 1960 the Kennedy's would not even let Thomas O'Connor who
was running against Saltonstall on the stage at Boston Garden.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Karen McTrotsky <karenmctrotsky@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Barrister Ross cites Wikipedia for the date of Leverett Saltonstall's
> reelection as U.S. Senator and for the proposition that he received a
> majority of ballots cast at the election.
>
> I was wrong on the date; Wikipedia is wrong on the result.
>
> Yes, Saltonstall was reelected in 1954 rather than 1956. However, he
> received 49.25695 percent of the total number of  votes cast. The hearsay
> reflected by Wikipedia is incorrect. The only way to get to Wikipedia's
> calculation is to ignore 21 write-in votes   49,361 blanks.   See:  Manual
> of the General Court available at internet.org
>
> My original point remains, which is the revisionist retelling of the
> WHDH-TV license story based on scraps of secondary information concerning
> the Globe and the Kennedy family is incomplete without understanding the
> political landscape of the time. Simply put, it was the era of the last
> stand of the Yankee Republicans against ethnic Democrats as evidenced by
> the very close Kennedy-Lodge and Saltonstall-Furcolo elections. There was
> no business more aligned with the Yankee culture than The Shoe, whose
> principals and allies had big stakes in Herald-Traveler Corp., and no
> larger Yankee political figure than Saltonstall. It is hard to fathom that
> he sat by while Kennedys and the Globe exercised muscle in a regulatory
> battle before the Eisenhower dominated FCC and Federal Circuit since the
> battle had profound influence on the survival of the Republican newspaper
> of record.