Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Years. He was re-elected twice-the last time after explaining that he proposed to go on active duty in the Navy almost immediately. (He has run in five elections in his life, won them all.) To the lieutenant governorship, Minnesota gladly voted his choice for a successor, Edward Thye, now U.S. Senator from...
Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
...Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn't need the money (he married a Du Pont), he will now get a raise. Virginia pays its University presidents $15,000 a year-$5,000 more than the governor gets...
...Shanghai in the '20s and studied Communism. Now, at 46, after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...
...majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...