Word: governor
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...Taft Benson (from the same platform just an hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world that is torn by dissension except from a position of strength." That stirred interest. But in general, Ike's reception was unenthusiastic...
...Corner." But he was soon back again from the glowing legend to distasteful politics-a perfunctory huddle with Kansas' able Gubernatorial Candidate Clyde Reed Jr. ("I'm in his corner." said Ike. "Is that clear enough?"), who has high hopes of unseating wily Democratic Governor George Docking; a fast flight on to Denver, Mamie's home town, where the Eisenhowers' arrival got fouled up by a wretched little scene at the airport. There Ike was greeted and all but engulfed before the photographers by Colorado's Governor Stephen McNichols, another of the Eisenhower...
Working as a team, Ohio's Republican Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 46, and Senator John Bricker, 65, crisscrossed the Buckeye State last week in an aggressive new bid for votes. Boomed...
...Backlash. Even so, no Democrats-and precious few Republicans-have grabbed hold of the issue with the firmness of Ohio's O'Neill and Bricker. Notable exception: the nation's most stubborn right-to-work man, William Fife Knowland, California's Republican candidate for governor, who had set a horrible example by splitting his already-squabbling party asunder over the issue...
Charles Gibbons, Republican candidate for Governor, expressed party feeling as he attacked the Democrats for the unbalanced budget enacted in the latest Massachusetts legislative session...