Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than three hours after the polls had closed, U.S. Senator Irving Ives stepped before 200 Republicans in the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Wearing a somber smile, Ives conceded that Democrat Averell Harriman had defeated him in the race for the most important governorship in the U.S. Projection of returns already counted showed that the Democratic candidate would win by more than 200,000 votes. Ives said that he had just wired his opponent: "It was a great fight; congratulations and best wishes." Two blocks away, at the Biltmore, Harriman's excited supporters pushed...
...governors elect will be involved in national politics as soon as they take their oaths of office next January. Some of their appointees will set their sights on the governorship, and will hope to win it by pushing their chief executive into the Presidential race. They may be successful, for several of the best bets for the 1956 Democratic race are Harriman, Lausche of Ohio, and Williams of Michigan. Lausche and Williams ran particularly strong races this year in their quests for re-election...
...gifted hamming has taken him a long way. Eight years ago he was a high-school history teacher. Last week, at 37, after a year and a half as the efficient mayor of the booming city of São Paulo, he won the governorship election...
...polled expected Republican Christian Herter '15 to easily top Democrat Robert Murphy for the Massachusetts governorship...
...exact size of the Democratic majorities. If, for example, the first half of Hartford's polling places give Abraham A. Ribicoff, the Democratic candidate for governor, a lead of more than 14,000 votes over Republican Governor John Davis Lodge '25, then the G.O.P. will lose the Connecticut governorship, and probably Congress along with it. Such early-evening harbingers have accurately predicted national results in the past...