Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stewart a third try. He was expecting trouble in 1948. It would probably be stirred up by an old Crump foe, onetime Governor Gordon Browning. Freshly out of uniform, with a bright Army record behind him, big, tough Mr. Browning might run either for the senatorship or for the governorship. He had not yet declared himself...
...Mister Crump was ready for anything. For the governorship, he would run incumbent Jim McCord, no ball of fire but a man of considerable personal popularity. For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's. Thus eliminated from consideration as a Crump candidate, Tom Stewart bravely announced last week that he would run for re-election anyway. Snapped Ed Crump: "Stewart will be going around in circles, not knowing the directions, north, east, south, or west...
...Federal Government which moved in on them at last, and sent Weiss, Shushan, Smith and Caldwell to jail. The way was open to reform. Sam Jones, an earnest attorney, routed the heirs of Huey Long and won the governorship. That was in 1940. In that same election, Chep Morrison was sent to the legislature...
...voted the "most popular escort" by the city's debutantes. He was dashing and debonair. In spare moments in 1936, he worked for the election of a reform candidate for governor against Huey's man, Richard Leche (rhymes with mesh). Leche won the governorship but later went to jail (and has now quietly retired to a farm...
Died. Earl Snell, 52, governor of Oregon; in a hunting-trip plane crash; on a plateau in southern Oregon. Killed in the same crash: State Senate President Marshall Cornett, 49, next in line of succession for the governorship; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., 41, who had thought of running for governor in 1951, after the expiration of Snell's term...