Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy Brahmin family with 300-year-old roots in Boston and eight Massachusetts Governors among its scions, the long-jawed, rawboned "Salty" had a face so honest and distinctive it was called his best political asset. After serving 13 years in the state legislature, he won glory and the governorship by defeating Boston's scandal-tainted ex-mayor James Michael Curley in the elections of 1938. Saltonstall's cautious, plodding but scrupulous administration did much to restore Bay State confidence in elected officials, and, after being twice re-elected Governor, he moved on to the Senate. As Senator...
Dukakis, who gained prominence as moderator of the WGBH-TV award-winning "Advocates" series, assumed the governorship in January 1975, after defeating Sargent...
...money was not a sure road to victory. Like Clements and James, Tennessee's Butcher had never held elective office, and he used a lot of his own money in his $4.5 million bid for his state's governorship. But his finances became a campaign issue: he was criticized for his dealings with Georgia Banker Bert Lance and for his hotshot banking practices. His campaign spending also became an issue. Charged Republican Alexander: "Citizens of this state won't let Jake Butcher buy the Governor's office." He was right...
...Republican Congressman William Armstrong denied Democrat Floyd Haskell a second term in the Senate. Compared with the vigorous Armstrong, the courtly, soft-spoken Haskell sounded unconvincing when he vowed to fight inflation and cut taxes. Similar issues in Nevada buried Lieutenant Governor Robert Rose, who tried to keep the governorship in Democratic hands after Incumbent Mike O'Callaghan retires at year's end. Republican Attorney General Robert List handily defeated Rose, again by calling for tax cuts...
...conservative trend, however, had limits; extreme rightists ran into trouble. Thus liberal Democrat Dick Lamm hung on to his job as Colorado's Governor by defeating archconservative Ted Strickland. In New Mexico, a Democratic moderate, Bruce King, beat archconservative Joe Skeen for the governorship...