Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third. No. 3 inheritor was Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, whose prestige & power were still intact last week as Murphy...
...primary was a simulacrum-with a reverse result-of last year's Barkley-Chandler fight which Senator Barkley (and WPA) won. Last week the Chandler man, Lieut.-Governor Keen Johnson, beat the Barkley (and C. I. O.) man, John Young Brown, for Democratic nomination to the Governorship...
...with his own men and ousted slick Glenn Frank from the presidency. Hardly had Phil La Follette got Clarence Addison Dykstra, Cincinnati's flood city manager, into the job than Wisconsin did a political about-face and elected plump, pink Republican Julius Peter ("The Just") Heil to the Governorship (TIME, Jan. 16). Governor Heil promptly declared war on President Dykstra...
When prospering, arthritic Dick Leche found it wise to quit last week and turn over the Governorship to Huey's brother, Earl (TIME, July 3), James Monroe Smith was nowhere in sight, someone having seen to it that he had plenty of time to vanish after he resigned. By the week-end the man whom L. S. U. students publicly derided as JIMMY THE STOOGE had become a peril to the whole post-Huey machine in Louisiana, and particularly to Earl Long's hopes of being elected Governor in his own right next year...
...Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother in vote appeal and administrative aptitude...