Word: ex-governor
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...Franklin George, 78, scholarly dean of the U.S. Senate, found it hard to believe the news he was getting from home. His friends told him that his rank as a statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful decision: he would withdraw from the Senate race...
Among the other candidates is a voice from the past, ex-governor, ex-Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, who in 1938 appeared on the political scene with hillbilly songs and raucous cries of "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," and wound up as governor. Now 66, O'Daniel has dusted off his old platform (in favor of the Ten Commandments and the golden rule). Nobody expects him to win, but liberals and conservatives alike wonder anxiously how many of their votes he might siphon...
...once more for trial at London's Old Bailey. He was, their records plainly showed, neither a major nor a Woodfall but an operator better known to the Yard as Champagne Charlie. In a lifetime of high living, assuming identities that ranged from that of "Sir Patrick Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas" to that of "Roland Jones, heir to a fortune," 35-year-old Charlie had suavely separated hundreds of impressionable Britons from thousands of pounds. Born to middle-class respectability, he had spent a third of his life in jail and only nine months in the army...
...most formidable Democratic opposition comes from ex-Governor (1949-53) Fuller Warren, still buoyed up by a feeling that "the Almighty endowed me with the talent to govern this state." If Collins clears the Warren hurdle, observers believe he can easily beat the G.O.P. candidate, William A. Washburne...
...years that he has been running the gaudiest one-man show in Brazilian politics, Sáo Paulo's millionaire ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros has plopped in and out of hot water like a boardinghouse soup bone. Opponents hinted freely at slush funds, financial skulduggery, and the existence of a "little box" filled to overflowing with bundles of boodle for political pals. Even last year, when Adhemar (as all Brazilians call him) was running for the presidency, he faced a charge that, while governor from 1947 to 1951 he had passed out 3,000,000 cruzeiros' worth...