Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Ed King--you can't vote separately for Lieutenant Governor and Governor in Massachusetts--so if Hatch wins, he'll be washed up. Old Tip won't like that. And he certainly won't want Mike Dukakis, the man who helped destroy his son's rise to the governorship, to get a Cabinet post. He won't even want to see Dukakis in Washington." "So if Carter knows what's good for him, Dukakis won't get near the Cabinet, Maybe Channel 2 will take him back...
...month before the 1924 election. Fifty-four years later there are only two women holding that office --Connecticut's Ella Grasso and Washington's fireball, Dixie Lee Ray. A Cambridge woman hopes to join the lonely twosome this fall by challenging incumbent Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for the Massachusetts governorship. That woman is Barbara Ackermann...
...time during the Duke of Windsor's governorship of the Bahamas did I call on him at Government House to pay my respects. It is true, however, that the duke had no time for people of color. And he did not hesitate to show his feelings in words and deeds...
...Phooey!" and autographed axes like those Maddox once gave to the band of whites helping him keep out blacks who tried to come to dinner. The aim of the auction was to pay off $125,000 in old campaign debts from Maddox's unsuccessful second bid for the governorship in 1974. The total take? A mere...
...Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Wallace promised when he won the governorship in 1962. He vowed to "stand at the schoolhouse door" of the University of Alabama to block its court-ordered integration, and he did. He had to step aside, but he had made his point, won his publicity. He was ready to run for President...