Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter in Volume II is one he wrote to Mama from Warm Springs during the 1928 presidential campaign for Alfred E. Smith: "I spoke in Atlanta twice last Wednesday and there is an appalling amount of vile propaganda in circulation ... I have had a difficult time turning down the Governorship [of New York], letters and telegrams by the dozen begging me to save the situation by running, but I have been perfectly firm...
Herman Eugene ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, who had tried it on once before for size, triumphantly accepted the mantle of the governorship of Georgia last week. He allowed it would be a good fit after some tailoring...
...Democratic sweep extended into the governorship races. Before the election, Republicans and Democrats each held 24 states. After elections in 34 states, the Democrats were certain of 27, the Republicans of 17, with four doubtful. Seven governorships shifted from Republicans to Democrats. One and possibly two went from Democrats to Republicans...
...through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent victorious. In 1940 Dev-came within 5,588 votes of the Governorship and lost as lieutenant governor by only 6,787 six years later...
...Proconsul Verres, a grasping fellow who rose to the governorship of Sicily, "possessed probably the finest eye for works of art of anyone in the ancient world...