Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Kennelly pulled no punches. He reminded the committeemen (who needed no reminding) that he had successfully fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 when he backed Henry Horner for the governorship; that he had fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
...little greyer, considerably heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000 citizens in his domain nor a 70 ft. by 30 ft. gubernatorial bedroom at his disposal. But he had time at last to review his Puerto Rican record and his relations with Franklin Roosevelt, who sent him there...
...hierarchy of A.A. are President Edward A. Hayes, lawyer, American Legion big shot and onetime National Commander, unsuccessful candidate for the Illinois governorship in 1940; Treasurer W. Homer Hartz, Chicago businessman and former president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association...
James E. Folsom of Alabama, who stands 6 ft. 8 in. and claims to have kissed 50,000 women during his recent campaign for the governorship, paid a visit to Hollywood, proudly demonstrated his politicking...
...medicine-show journalism were many carefully chosen glimpses of the Chief. But none showed him as his early opposition had seen him (see cut). There was his election to Congress in 1903 (but, naturally, no mention of his ill-fated tries for the presidency, the New York mayoralty and governorship). There was his imperial decree...