Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder by using the phrase "our party." Those words shivered all through politically alert Wisconsin. When Phil La Follette got back the Governorship last year, Mr. & Mrs. Frank were not invited to stand in the receiving line at the inaugural ball. Mr. & Mrs. La Follette stayed away from Wisconsin's last commencement...
Though I am not the type of reader who would cancel his subscription to TIME over a difference of opinion, it is necessary to take exception to your remarks on Senator Elmer A. Benson who has been elected to the governorship of Minnestoa by a 5-to-3 majority | TIME...
...Idaho, Democrats swept everything before them. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by nearly 2-to-1; Democrat Barzilla W. Clark swept into the Governorship; to both seats in the House of Representatives Democrats were returned. Only exception was Governor C. Ben Ross, best campaigner on the State Democratic ticket, who ran against William E. Borah for the Senate. Republican Borah -who did not mention Alfred M. Landon in the entire campaign-polled upwards of 125,000 votes, practically the same number as Franklin Roosevelt. Said he afterward: "I anticipate the next six years will be tremendous years."Then he went...
...more conservative element of the Non-Partisan League. Fighting an uphill fight, with Senator Gerald P. Nye campaigning against him, the final count gave him only 97,000 of 271,000 votes cast, but a 2,000-vote plurality which assured North Dakota of two more years of sensational Governorship. In the same election North Dakota, a Dry State ever since she entered the union in 1889, went Wet by vote...
...Minnesota caused him to persuade the State's Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor to withdraw in favor of the Farmer-Labor candidates. Old-line Democrats grumbled. Republicans shouted that the President had "sold his Party down the river." But the deal worked, carried Elmer Benson into the Governorship...