Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan. To help make Michigan safe for Democracy, President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank...
...been offered was Minister to Poland, at which he stuck up his Irish nose. In fact the New Deal showed distinct signs of coolness toward the three-times Mayor of Boston. Therefore Mr. Curley decided to show them. In 1934 he campaigned his way into the governorship, and promptly took political possession of the State in his own right instead of that of the New Deal. And when Governor Curley decided to run for the Senate, he did not even bother to put out the Democratic incumbent, Marcus Allen Coolidge. Senator Coolidge was simply dumped by the wayside; the Democratic...
...held it throughout. But that lead was not the 50,000-to-100,000 triumph which Chairman Hamilton had predicted. When all but three of the State's 633 precincts had reported, the biggest GOP winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
...perennial lawyer and legislator, Ed Rivers has long yearned for the Governorship. No less ardent in his praise of the President than Senator Russell, the next Governor of Georgia proudly posed with his Wife Lucile, Daughter Geraldine, Son Ed Jr., Mrs. Ed Jr. and Granddaughter Jan. Crowed...
...Federal income tax. But beyond any such fantastic reforms, beyond his abuse of Richard B. Russell Jr. and the New Deal, Candidate Talmadge stressed in his speeches, his broadsides and his weekly sheet The Statesman ("Editor: The People; Associate Editor: Eugene Talmadge") the impressive and incontrovertible fact of his Governorship: TALMADGE KEPT HIS PROMISES...