Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reasons for the big split were obscure, and there were a dozen different explanations. According to one rumor, Bonelli had cast covetous eyes on the governorship, but Publisher Norman Chandler, 54-year-old chief of the Chandler clan, thought that was going too far. Whatever the reasons for the falling out, the Chandlers drew first blood last October (TIME, Oct. 19) with a series of articles in their tabloid, the Los Angeles Mirror-denouncing Bonelli and his "saloon empire." Big Bill's board, charged the Mirror, displayed incredible laxity in freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political...
Dever, who was defeated two years ago by Christian A. Herter '15 in his attempt to retain the governorship, has since reopened his law practice with offices in Boston and Washington...
...governor, Warren greatly improved the caliber of the California bench by appointing well-qualified judges. Always a practical man rather than a philosopher, always busy as an administrator, Warren never expounded a full-bodied philosophy of law. Los Angeles Attorney Robert Kenny, opposing Warren for the governorship in 1946, charged: "He never had an abstract thought in his life...
Lausche's alternative was to swap places on the ticket with Senator Thomas A. Burke, the man he appointed to the late Robert A. Taft's seat, giving Burke a chance for the governorship. But the political dangers of giving up his secure position in Columbus loomed large in Frank Lausche's mind. In 1956, as governor, he would have a vote-getting record unmatched by other Democrats, and he could confidently expect to control Ohio's convention delegates. As a freshman Senator, he might weaken home-state ties, and he would have to jump into...
...distrust fell on fertile soil. For Massachusetts was just emerging from a period of extreme anxiety. Only a few years before, in the last years of England's ill-fated James II, the colony had lost its precious charter and had felt the weight of royal autocracy under the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros. Even as the witch craze began, Massachusetts representatives were at the court of the new King, seeking a new charter. And the memory of King Phillip's War, with its horrors of Indian savagery, was still fresh in many New England minds...