Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everybody except the candidates and the P.A.C. was bored with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...elections. Key Man of G.O.P. hopes in Pennsylvania is Governor Edward Martin, who is out to oust Democratic Boss Joe Guffey from his U.S. Senate seat. G.O.P. chances, already high thanks to Martin's popularity, were enhanced last week by the party's choice for the Governorship race: able Attorney General James H. Duff...
...Mexico, there is a legend that Miguel Alemán wins by the hand of death. He got into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...
...musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your Own Sweet Darling Wife, with which 0'Daniel sang his way into the Texas Governorship and the U.S. Senate...
...death of Idaho's Republican Senator John Thomas, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles G. Gossett exercised a governor's well-used prerogative. Sturdy Charles Gossett, a well-to-do farmer whose political thinking plows a furrow well to the right of center, resigned his governorship and let his successor appoint him to the vacancy on Capitol Hill...