Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown Jr. recaptured the state's governorship from the Republicans, defeating state controller Houston I. Flournoy...
Despite yesterday's rain, a heavy voter turnout estimated to be between 70 and 80 per cent helped Dukakis roll up a surprisingly large margin over Sargent returning the governorship to the democrats for the first time in a decade...
While serving in high transportation posts during Rockefeller's 14-year governorship, Ronan borrowed heavily from his boss. Neither Rockefeller nor Ronan would detail the purposes of the loans and gifts further than vaguely citing real estate purchases and financial responsibilities. Ronan in 1968 became the $75,000-a-year chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey...
...Brown, California's Governor from 1959 to 1966, and the man who seemingly ended Richard Nixon's political career in 1962 by crushing him in a race for the governorship. But Jerry Brown is out from under Pat Brown's considerable shadow now and has established himself as his own man with his own views. That is the bedrock requirement for any candidate in a major election this year. Across the country, Republicans and Democrats alike are struggling to convince jaded voters not simply that they are bright and capable candidates but, perhaps even more important, that...
...matter who the Democrats put up against Nelson Rockefeller-local hero, national figure-he inevitably went down to defeat. But now the invincible Rocky has gone to his reward in Washington, and his No. 2 man for 15 years, Malcolm Wilson, 60, is trying to keep the governorship for the Republicans. But if Wilson is a capable administrator, he lacks political punch with the electorate...