Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Connecticut's municipal courts, the scales of justice teetered crazily. With two complete sets of judges on the job-those appointed by the last Republican regime and a new batch named by Democratic Governor Chester Bowles-the state had exactly twice as many judges as it could use...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of...
The announcement stunned Republicans in Connecticut and Washington. New Dealing Chester Bowles would almost certainly replace Baldwin with a Democrat, thus increasing Democratic strength in the Senate to 55, a majority of seven; at the same time the Republicans would lose their best vote getter in the state. When-Baldwin...
But Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when...
One of the 20th's leaders, Robert Blaikie, had asked Franklin to run (under New York law a Congressman need not be a resident of the district he represents.) Young (34), husky (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Franklin quickly accepted, thereby becoming the first of the four Roosevelt...