Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone after conferring a Federal Judgeship on 39-year-old Governor Allred (TIME. July 18), the story was that there had been a political deal: Son Elliott Roosevelt had got his friend Mr. Allred the Judgeship and Mr. Allred would help Elliott get elected to office, perhaps the lieutenant-governorship in 1940. Prompt and explicit in his comment was Son Elliott: "I do not plan to run for any political office now, two years from now or four years hence...
...PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 5 Vols.-Ran- dom House ($15). Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14¼-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous clichés, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson...
...health permanently weakened by fever contracted as a Union soldier, he wandered through the West, became a lawyer in Missouri and settled in Chicago in 1875. He had married a childhood sweetheart, written a liberal study of prison reform, and served as a judge, when he won the governorship...
...Currency an inconspicuous lawyer named James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor. Jefty did not know much about banking, as he readily admitted, but he had dabbled in enough other professions to give him a deft versatility. As a politician he was defeated for the North Dakota Governorship In 1920, but got into the Legislature. As a lawyer he was sharp enough to become the partner of William Gibbs McAdoo in California, where Jefty moved in 1925. As a Democrat he was one of the first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty...
Although the Society for Freedom in Teaching, powerful lobbyist last year, has no aspirant picked for the governorship, the professor said that it was the intention of the group "to put each candidate on the spot...