Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paulo state legislature in 1934, he went on to become governor, first by presidential appointment, and. in 1947, by the ballot box. He grew wealthy in office-but at the same time built hospitals, roads and schools. His luck ran out in 1954 when he lost the governorship to Jânio Quadros, who campaigned on the charge that Adhemar was a thief. In the 1955 presidential race, Adhemar ran a poor third...
...election to the Senate in 1958 (TIME, Jan. 14). In California, where the body politic revolves around the uncomfortable triumvirate of Knight, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, gossips thought they saw what lay in Knowland's mind: return to California, wrest the governorship from Goodie Knight in 1958, battle Dick Nixon for the GOPresidential nomination...
...well he emerges from the pork-barrel pulls. Furcolo, identified with patronage of former Governor Paul Dever, is clearly not the intellectual equal of Christian Herter or John F. Kennedy. But on the basis of his superiority over his Republican opponent--Furcolo draws our qualified endorsement for the Governorship...
Whittier's ambitions for the governorship have been publicized since 1950, when Dever won his second term. An excellent orator and clever platform speaker, he became the Republicans' chief critic of the Dever Administration, attacking the Governor from the floor of the State Senate and in every possible headline for inefficiency and corruption. Dever once became so incensed with the young senator that he barred him from the Governor's office...
This manifest ambition has caused Republicans as well as Democrats to be somewhat restive about their young David. But when Whittier's impending nomination for the governorship caused a split in the state GOP early this summer, considerations of practicality resolved the issue. Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats...