Word: governor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the voting was as much pro-Driscoll as it was anti-Hague. In his three years in office, 47-year-old Alfred Driscoll, graduate of Williams and of Harvard Law, had proved a capable, liberal governor...
...proudest achievement, Driscoll thinks, is New Jersey's new constitution which a voters' referendum adopted two years ago. One of its provisions abolished an old state rule which prohibited a governor from succeeding himself. Under it, Alfred Driscoll became the first man to win two successive terms as New Jersey's governor in 105 years...
...flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio ballot and substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche at the top of a straight-ticket ballot, figured the change was worth 100,000 votes to the Republicans next fall. Democrats prepared to challenge its legality. ¶Pennsylvania became the 18th state to approve (and New Jersey the 27th state to reject) a bonus for World War II veterans. Pennsylvania...
...streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots had been marked and laid away two weeks before...
...from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic British colonial courts. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham flatly announced that British recognition of Red China, expected soon (see INTERNATIONAL), would automatically give the Communists possession of the airlines, anyway...