Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to the party's prayer. He is young, energetic, one of the world's best mixers and hasn't delved too deeply into Republican factional squabbles. There'll be a lot of talk about getting Landon into the race if he wins his governorship in November. . . . He is-or would be-a newcomer in national politics; and only heaven knows how badly the party wants a newcomer." So far as I have been able to learn, that was the first published piece suggesting Governor Landon's availability-a belief buttressed by receipt...
...with unsuppressed glee, and Roosevelt & Co. was putting its collective head together to dig up another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock to all but Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had known it "for some time," Herbert Lehman's firmly-worded refusal to run for the third time sprouted a crop of rumors. Some said...
...seized control of the organization by packing its board of directors; 3) Dr. Townsend's attorney, Sheridan Downey, EPIC candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1934, had weaned the gentle oldster away from his partner in order to further his own ambitions for California's governorship; 4) Dr. Townsend's clique, fearful lest the Congressional investigation disclose some shady Townsend financing, had ousted Secretary Clements in order to have a convenient scapegoat; 5) Dr. Townsend wanted a Townsend third party, while Secretary Clements did not; 6) Secretary Clements wanted a Townsend third party, while Dr. Townsend...
...notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier...
...consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...