Word: govenor
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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...
...Govenor Dewey's campaign was marked by all but one of the foloowing...
Stripping to the waist in the office of Govenor Floyd Olson of Minnesota, Congressman-elect Francis Henry SHoemaker displayed several large bruises. Cried he: "If you don't investigate, I'll do something about it when I get to Washington." Mr. Shoemaker said that while under the influence of an opiate administered for a tooth extraction, he was taken to the wrong hospital, forcibly detained, beaten, handcuffed, straitjacketed. Govenor Olson wanted to know how he got away...
...Govenor William E. Russell will preside at the debate. The judges will be Hon. George Fred. Williams of Massachusetts, Professor A. T. Hadley of Yale, and Professor Richmond Mayo-Smith of Columbia. Among those who will come from Princeton to hear the debate is Professor McClure. From Yale will come W. H. Clark, who spoke in last year's Harvard-Yale debate and C. N. Clark, one of the winners of this year's Yale-Princeton debate...