Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned conservative Senator John W. Bricker when Ohio Republicans decided to put right-to-work up for a vote in the November election: "If you put this on the ballot, you will lose the governorship, control of the state senate and house, and I might lose." He was right all around...
...hound's tooth record as Sao Paulo's Governor in a term that ended Jan. 31. On that record, in last October's elections, he won a federal Deputy's seat and at the same time pushed his own candidate into Sao Paulo's governorship over stiff opposition. In the other October political development of note, the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.) broke out of perpetual second place to back seven winning Governors, seven Senators and 74 Deputies with the highest vote in its history-some...
...proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
...Franklin Roosevelt. Gruening had heavy labor support, campaigned tirelessly, spoke clearly on all questions, personally claimed credit for statehood, the DEW line and the fight against tuberculosis among Alaska's natives. It took all that to beat out young (39) Republican Mike Stepovich, who quit the territorial governorship to run. Stepovich, father of eight children and last-appointed Alaska governor proved to be only a so-so campaigner, got lost in the political infighting, lost the election by a slender 2,500 votes...
...right start, to Seaton's mind: a vote for 1) young (39) Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), who resigned from the governorship to run for the U.S. Senate against aging (71) onetime Governor Ernest Gruening; 2) Territorial Senator John Butrovich Jr., 48, for Governor v. Valdez Grocer William Egan...