Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstration in Morris County was but another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
Oklahoma. Oil Wholesaler Raymond Gary, a former schoolteacher who became president pro tempore of the state senate, clinched the governorship in a runoff election. Gary ran second of 16 candidates in last month's primary, but came from behind to beat fire-breathing William Coe. Biggest upset, however, was Oklahoma's choice for lieutenant governor: Cowboy Pink Williams, 62, a rancher (1,100 acres) who virtually rode into office on a three-letter word* banned from the mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured...
...primary race for the governorship officially got under way last week, Georgia found that its eight male Democratic candidates were at least agreed on one thing: not one had any intention of doing away with segregation in the public schools. Lest there be any doubt, seven of the would-be governors had gone on record before the 21-man, all-white Georgia education commission, especially set up to explore ways and means of circumventing the U.S. Supreme Court's historic anti-segregation decision. Unlike the only woman in the race-Lawyer Grace Wilkey Thomas, past president of the Women...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. said: "I positively will not go into politics." Last week, at 39, young F.D.R. (Frank to his friends) bid for the nation's second biggest political job: governor of New York. His announcement was no surprise; his father had stepped into the governorship (at 46) before stepping up to the White House, and Junior is trying out Father's footsteps for size...
...more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...