Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sights set on the governorship again in 1960 and Cotton's Senate seat in 1962, Powell plainly wanted the state to see who was heading the parade. Just as plainly, if anything should go wrong with the Nixon vote in New Hampshire, the state could look forward to the biggest pile-up since a freight train hit Barnum & Bailey's "Jumbo...
...coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election it won three times more votes there than...
...defeat. "Wild Bill'' Langer was a hired farm hand at 15, a lawyer at 20, a Columbia University liberal arts graduate at 24, a county prosecutor at 28. Defeated for Governor in 1920 and for attorney general in 1928, he ran again in 1932, won the governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign) and was jailed. He defied the court that disqualified him as Governor, won his appeals but lost the G.O.P. 1936 primary, ran successfully as an independent. In the Senate, Maverick Langer excelled in filibusters, fought lend-lease...
...Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...
...lightning struck. Determined to exchange Sam King's standpat Republicanism for some of his own kind, President Eisenhower sent for Quinn, offered him the governorship. The young lawyer confessed his inexperience. Said Ike: "You are a fine, clean-cut young man. Now you do your best, and that will be the best thing for America...