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...Missouri, four-time State Auditor Forrest Smith, who helped himself get re-elected by reminding voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house...
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...natural vote-getter; he has an Irish gift for phrase. But he refuses to indulge in dramatics. His automobiles-a black Cadillac and a black Plymouth sedan-bear no special licenses, no big red lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
...never had so much attention from a candidate for state office, let alone from a presidential aspirant. But Harold Stassen desperately needed Oregon's twelve convention delegates to get his bandwagon, slowed down in Ohio, rolling again. And Tom Dewey wanted to prove his ability as a vote-getter...
...Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker...