Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaigns for the new "compact" Rambler to compete against what he termed "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" of the bigger companies. American Motors stopped production of its large cars, the already poor-selling Nash and Hudson, and concentrated on the Rambler. By the time Romney resigned to run for the Michigan governorship in 1962, American Motors was a money-maker...
...some, the desire to take politics away from the wicked became a passion and the Kinsellas were successful at it; first, the mayoralty and then the governorship was theirs. Two of the brothers, however, have a disagreement about the way in which the state is being run. The disagreement becomes semi-public, and, then, because of the paths each takes, dangerous to the safety of the family...
...reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely outcome is that the nod will go to Maddox, even though Callaway outpolled him on Election Day by 3,538 votes...
When all the court hassles and confusions are over, the new governor will take office with questionable authority and prestige. Sanders, on the other hand, will leave the governorship with his reputation at a personal high. He has come to represent a figure of unity amid the turmoil. A governor in Georgia cannot succeed himself, but Sanders has promised to stay in office until the election is decided...
...amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution, it is up to the state legislature to award the governorship to one of the two top candidates. There was little doubt that the Democratic majority of legislators would pick Lester Maddox, the onetime restaurateur who in 1964 dispensed ax handles to whites rather than serve chicken legs to Negroes...