Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge he made a public show of defying a Johnson order to turn over voting lists to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Johnson later found that Wallace had cooperated with the authorities, and dropped contempt charges against him. But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962. As the years passed, Johnson's intervention in .he workings of state government so emasculated Wallace's authority that some observers began calling Johnson "the real Governor of Alabama...
...lighter vein, Vice Mayor Edward T. Sullivan recalled the early careers of the distinguished seven, telling how Leverett Saltonstall '14 had decided after losing the lieutenant governorship that he might have to content himself with a permanent position as an alderman in Newton...
...with ... La Cosa Nostra," Alioto filed a libel suit for $12.5 million. The story, plus other legal troubles (a federal mail-fraud indictment against Alioto was dropped, and he won a civil suit over allegedly improper legal fees), helped to undermine the mayor's ambitions for the California governorship. But three times the libel case went to trial (in 1970, '72, '76), and three times the juries could not agree...
...though. Outstanding jurists have moved directly to the nation's highest court without apprenticeship on any bench. Felix Frankfurter was a Harvard law professor when F.D.R. named him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939. Earl Warren was plucked from California's governorship to become Chief Justice in 1953-though he had also been a D.A. and the state's attorney general. At present, there are three men on the Supreme Court-Justices William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell and Byron R. White-who had not been judges before their appointment. Bird, a quick study...
Free Access. Carter chose Hamilton Jordan, 32, his shrewd and affable campaign manager, to be his chief political adviser. Jordan has been a loyalist since 1966, when Carter was running his losing race for the Georgia governorship. Another key role will be played by Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, who began working for Carter as his chauffeur in his 1970 gubernatorial contest...