Word: govenor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor's chair, Goodie Knight had declared for another term in Sacramento. After Knowland and Nixon forces pressured Knight into the Senate race, Knight lost considerable face in party ranks. Should gregarious, pro-labor Goodie Knight pull more votes for the Senate than Knowland gets for Govenor, Goodie would doubtless establish himself as (next to Vice President Nixon) the state's top-dog Republican...
...diplomat. Both scurried to sign up for Communist-line outfits, e.g., American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. American Peace Mobilization, National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. He led a Communist-backed protest march (on the train) from New York City to Albany (1947) to urge Govenor Dewey to freeze rent controls in New York. Both were heady for Wallace for President. 'Both broadened their contacts with Communists (she felt, it was suggested, that she had to seek and find discipline; he just tagged along), joined up as spies in the Soviet embassy...