Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) is being talked up for the governorship. But Harvey has been doing some investigating on his own, and he has become convinced of the young man's innocence. In two sensational court scenes, he proves enough to ensure the prisoner's release...
...Hummon had the last laugh. By week's end three Georgia judges had heard suits concerning his claim and the counterclaim of Lieutenant Governor M. E. Thompson to the governorship. The judges chose Hummon in two cases out of three...
Things also went wrong with Hummon's hopes for settlement of his feud with Lieutenant Governor M. E. Thompson over their respective claims to the governorship. In Rome, one Judge Claude Porter, hearing a suit brought by Thompson to get records from the state parole board, ruled that Hummon had no right to office...
...scratched Old Gene's name off their ballots and wrote in Hummon's. This placed him second to Gene's 143,279. When Old Gene died, Hummon and an ex-Georgia legislator named Roy V. Harris set out to parlay this handful of paper into the governorship. They put their faith in a line in the constitution which read: "If no person shall have [a] majority (of the total votes cast) then from the two persons having the highest number of votes . . . the General Assembly shall immediately elect a governor." Their reasoning: if Old Gene was dead...
ATLANTA, January 19--Herman Talmadge, whose claim to governorship of Georgia is currently challenged by M. E. Thompson, declared tonight that he would continue to hold the office and would "not yield to any threat or bow to force...