Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requires that state governors who intend to run for President resign at least six months before election day. As the April resignation deadline neared, Jânio Quadros passed the word that he was thinking of running. It was highly doubtful whether Quadros really intended to give up the governorship of Brazil's richest state only six months after his election in order to run a long-shot race for the Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded three federal...
Ever since the governorship of Elbridge Gerry in 1812, the shadow of that common political animal, the gerrymander, has hung over Massachusetts. Since the Federal Constitution leaves the designing of Congressional districts to the states, legislatures traditionally redistrict in the interests of the majority party. In Massachusetts, Republicans and Democrats have jockeyed for political advantage in redistricting since 1950, when the last Congressional reapportionment took place. Each party has attempted to gerrymander the other out of some of its Congressional seats, but neither has been able to pass a redistricting law, with the result that Massachusetts retains the same ungainly...
...state senate. When Adlai Stevenson was elected governor in 1948, he appointed Daley state director of revenue. When Jack Arvey's ulcers became bad enough, Daley took over as Democratic county chairman. If he can win the mayoralty, Daley will probably cast longing eyes on the governorship...
...forbidding any teacher to work for or against any candidate for any local office. Protested a C.T.A. official: "This is a basic issue with far more than local import. Now it's local candidates The next thing we know it could be extended to a campaign for the governorship. The next logical step would involve a presidential campaign." ¶ The Fund for the Advancement of Education added its own gloomy estimate of the teacher shortage: "The annual output of elementary and high-school teachers has dropped 26% since 1950, while enrollments in elementary and high schools have risen...
Died. William S. Beardsley, 53, Republican governor of Iowa; in an automobile accident; near Des Moines. Beardsley won the governorship in 1948, held it for three terms with a middle-of-the-road Republicanism which went down better with the voters than it did with the professionals of his own party. He did not run for reelection in November...