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Ohio. If popular ex-Governor Frank Lausche returns to the Executive Mansion, Republican Governor Tom Herbert will have only himself to blame. Practical John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche...
OKLAHOMA. Despite the best-organized, best-financed campaign in years, Congressman Ross Rizley was conceded little chance to defeat the Democrats' wealthy ex-Governor Bob Kerr for the seat vacated by ancient Senator Ed Moore. Backed by labor and a strong Democratic tradition, Bob Kerr cried: "Rizley is a reactionary, standpat, Roosevelt-hating, Ed Moore and Bob Taft Republican...
Texans had to admit that the U.S. Senate race between pipe-smoking ex-Governor Coke Stevenson and fast-talking Congressman Lyndon Johnson was close-even for Texas. Ten days after the election it was still impossible to tell...
...news of ex-Governor Tugwell, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...first time in two months, President Truman had a full Cabinet. After four days of public hesitation, Massachusetts' tall, personable ex-Governor Maurice Tobin accepted appointment as Secretary of Labor...