Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later, Volpe, again campaigning primarily on his own name and on promises of reform, defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Francis X. Bellotti for the governorship. Volpe was aided by many anti-Bellotti votes in that election, which was quite close. Bellotti had defied an unwritten rule of good political behavior by running against (and defeating) Peabody for the Democratic nomination. Many friends of Peabody's resented this and voted for Volpe...
With Richardson deciding to become the endorsee for Attorney General and with McGuire offering the prospect of minimal competition, a four-way battle emerged for the lieutenant governorship. But hardly any of the candidates, including the eventual winner, Francis W. Sargent, Volpe's former Commissioner of Public Works, seemed attracted solely by the party's image. The value of the endorsement is still a relative, not an absolute thing...
...fact that it was well publicized and that there were plenty of Romney-for-Governor buttons available in Bloomfield Hills the next day only proves that his supporters recognized more clearly than he did how surely his actions for the past three years had been pointing toward the Governorship...
...otherwise accurate and fine report. Tuesday's CRIMSON seriously misquoted Monday evening's Young Democrats' speaker, Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., '37. In answer to a question concerning whether Sen. Jacob Javits would seek the New York governorship. Mr. Roosevelt is quoted in your story as replying. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...
...have worked uneasily with Romney, but the Fifties Liberals have not been able to adjust successfully to the Romney appeal. They have a hard time realizing that state elections are no longer automatically theirs, and that their tactics (which they tend to confuse with principles) failed to win the governorship...