Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next July's Democratic Convention. With the happy assurance that Kentucky's 31 delegate votes are as good as in his pocket, Johnson flew on to the Midwest in his rented red-and-white Beechcraft...
Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice...
...settlement specifically repudiated enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident, an elderly, respected Nicosia lawyer named John Clerides, 73, presented his candidacy against Makarios. The situation was made to order for Cyprus' Communists. When Governor Sir Hugh Foot ended the four-year state of emergency last month, they emerged from underground, led by Ezekias ("Pappy") Papaioannou, 51, a Spanish Civil War veteran. Around him were Prague and Moscow-trained party activists, who already control the island's dock and farm unions. They volunteered their...
...election last month showed in the neighboring Northern Cameroons-Moslems were restive under the ruling emirs. Alarmed, the Sardauna began a whirlwind electioneering bout, made 150 speeches in six weeks. The Sardauna did not want the federal prime ministership for himself, hoped for the honorary post of Governor General instead; his party's choice for independent Nigeria's top political job would be turbaned, scholarly Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches the Sardauna cast gibes at Zik ("an unbelieving...
...other delegations will not throw early support to Senator Kennedy because their leaders, both Catholics, have enough of an interest in the vice-Presidential nomination to keep off the Kennedy bandwagon. Governor Michael DeSalle and Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio and Governor David Lawrence of Pennsylvania, thus are not able to bargain with Kennedy as long as the tacit prohibition of two Catholics on the same ticket stands...