Word: brann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long since revised the wheeze, "As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation." (James A. Farley's revision: "As Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont.") This year, scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State...
...Running against ex-Governor Brann for Senator was Republican Congressman Ralph Brewster, who won the nomination after a bitter fight that left scars. For Governor, Sumner Sewall, World War I hero, president of the State Senate, was the Republican candidate opposed to Fulton Jarvis Redman, former newspaper publisher...
...Derby history that a horse was quoted an odds-on favorite before the day of the race. While bookmakers stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles S. Howard's Mioland (pride of the West Coast), Tony Pelleteri's Andy K. (Mr. Big's chief rival last year). They kept their fingers crossed, remembering well that Colonel Bradley's last...