Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party nominations were concerned, everything went according to prediction. Attorney General Edmund Gerald ("Pat") Brown of San Francisco got the Democratic nomination for Governor over nondescript Democratic opposition. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, with no G.O.P. opposition, got the Republican nomination, and will fight out the governorship with Brown in November. In the battle for a Senate successor to Bill Knowland, Northern California's Congressman Clair Engle took the Democratic nomination. And G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who ran for the Senate after Knowland pressured him out of another term as Governor, won the Republican nomination over...
...heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...
...have two opportunities to make headway: he can oppose the gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would try for the governorship, not only because Ellender would be a hard political nut to crack but also because Earl Long drubbed the mayor badly in the 1956 race for governor. To proud and progress-conscious Chep Morrison, the defeat still rankles...
Conservative Republicans, e.g., Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, are planning to push their anti-Eisenhower brand of Republicanism even harder than before. There is little prospect that Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, with his mind on his campaign for the governorship of California, will be able or even willing to make the two-wings of the G.O.P. fly together to produce a unified force. And Knowland's heir apparent for the leadership, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, is still not quite sure which wing he wants to fly with...
Silence in Church? From Swedish women, accustomed to equality (only military service, the ministry and the governorship of counties still are banned to them), there came immediate and bitter reaction. By last week some 75 women - among them: 53-year-old Member of Parliament Sigrid Ekendahl, 47-year-old Agda Rossel. delegate to the U.N. Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman...