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Mississippi's Democratic primary was the first ballot-box test of 1943's anti-New Deal sentiment in the South. The result produced one hard fact: whoever wins in the run-off primary on Aug. 24, Mississippi will have an anti-New Deal Governor for the next four years...
Texans shook their heads admiringly over the primary, the most bitterly fought in a decade, thought surely it would require a run-off between the two high men. Best bet for the runoff: O'Daniel v. Allred, with most of the Moody votes then going to Allred...
...first time in 50 years a Charleston Aristocrat is bound for the U.S. Senate. In a special run-off primary last week, husky, sandy-haired Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank won the Democratic nomination which in South Carolina is equivalent to election...
...worth it. At last count, 53% of the votes were for Lee O'Daniel (making a run-off primary unlikely). Also-rans in order: Colonel Thompson, Commissioner Hines, Ma Ferguson, Jerry Sadler, "Cyclone" Davis...
Except for a single bulb burning in a downstairs office, the lights went out in the great white Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, the night Sam Jones defeated Earl Long in the primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away small boys who tried to plant anti-Long signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from...