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...elected, Minnesota's ex-Governor Stassen would become the second man to be governor of two different states. The other: Sam Houston, Tennessee (1827-29), Texas...
...What have we in the South done to justify these punitive measures?" Byrd asked a Richmond audience last week. "This is being forced upon us to humiliate the Southern people and perhaps destroy us. This whole business is simply to get some Nigra votes up North." Boomed ex-Governor William M. Tuck to a rally at the Danville fair: "If the Democratic ticket fails to secure a resounding victory, it will be construed all over the U.S., and in fact the world, as a victory for Warren, Brownell, Eisenhower and the National Association for the Agitation of Colored People."* Shouted...
...told the CRIMSON that Faubus was undoubtedly in control of the state, and that no candidate could hope, at present, to defeat him. The ex-governor did say, however, that he felt the liberal wing of the state party would eventually emerge stronger because of the present situation...
Both before and after President Eisenhower took to TV to defend his besieged budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Capitol Hill Democrats snickered in the cloakrooms: "The Republican Party should demand equal time to answer him!" Utah's neo-dinosaurian Republican ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee, now chairman of the "For America" committee, did exactly that. By last week three major TV networks had turned down Republican Lee's request, leaving only Mutual Broadcasting Network as his last hope...
...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...