Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the 27 days of campaigning for the run-off primary for Texas' governorship, hard-pitching, New Dealing Dr. Homer Price Rainey strove mightily to overcome the 152,000-vote handicap that was indicated by last month's indecisive Democratic primary. Said onetime baseballer Rainey: It won't be over till the last man's out in the ninth...
...Gene" had wangled himself back into the governorship by winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary was no puzzle to Georgians-even though his principal opponent, James V. Carmichael, had polled 314,421 popular votes to Gene's 305,777. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" had just exploited Georgia's county unit system of counting votes...
...that the Governor himself was not trying to overthrow civilization. He was a self-made Gilded Age millionaire lawyer of German peasant stock who happened to develop a social conscience. Personally he had little to gain by the pardon and much to lose; in fact, he lost the governorship at the next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among them Poet Vachel Lindsay, who as a boy had known him as governor...
That decided him. Breathing fire, he leaped into the race for the governorship, tirelessly stumped the state in a piped vest and his "crapshooters coat" (tight, double-breasted grey, with black cuff & collar bindings and pearl buttons). His platform: a thorough statewide house cleaning...
Before the war he had been successively schoolteacher, college instructor, weekly newspaper editor, had acted as campaign manager for Senator Butler, secretary for Governor Griswold. In winning an impressive primary victory last week he all but cinched the governorship of Republican Nebraska...