Word: ex-governor
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...nation's mind ever since he retreated to his swamp home 13 months ago, the owl-eyed, trap-mouthed head of tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
...Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's ex-governor, took a nephew and 13-year-old Presidential Grandson Curtis ("Buzzie") Dall to a ship launching in Baltimore. None of them had ever seen one before, she explained...
Reconnoiterers attached to the 32nd Army Division, at General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, led a press party in the Marines' invasion of Cape Gloucester. When Jap planes passed over, Wisconsin's bespectacled ex-governor went to New Britain's grassroots...
...Salts. The middle-aged men and able-bodied gaffers who give their time to the TR are salty as mackerels. Among them: Apprentice Seamen Lewis O. Barrows, ex-Governor of Maine; Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pop Concerts. Faithful members of Flotilla 415 of Rockport, Mass. are septuagenarians Coxswain Dan Woodbury, ex-marine architect, Carl Green, ex-fisherman...
...Colorado the crowds were warm, the party leaders cool. Some party men, like Governor John C. Vivian, were cautiously "open-minded"; others, like shock-haired ex-Governor Ralph Carr, who had seconded Willkie's nomination in 1940, were hostile. Across the border in Wyoming, the reception was different: roly-poly Jim Griffith, State G.O.P. chairman, led the cheers at a banquet in the old Plains Hotel, where the crowd spilled out from the banquet hall into the hotel lobby and an adjoining drugstore...