Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Virginia's "massive resistance" program, Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. last week ordered Norfolk's six high schools closed to keep 17 Negro children out of white classrooms. That brought the state's padlocked-schools total to nine (one in Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal...
...eggs poached, he table-hopped to shake hands. He ducked behind the counter to greet the cook, the counterman, the waitresses and the busboy. For each, he flashed a broad smile, his forehead crinkled into wrinkles. "Hello, I'm Nelson Rockefeller," he said. "I'm running for Governor. It's a real pleasure to say hello to you." When the eggs were served, the candidate invited himself up to a table of sleepy breakfasting Batavians, popped a saccharin tablet into his coffee, chomped and chattered like a traveling salesman in women's ready-to-wear...
...South America, carved out a place in commerce, culture and international diplomacy. Adding the political touch to all this explains why Nelson Rockefeller is the hottest new Republican candidate on the U.S. political horizon. It also explains why the race for the nation's top state job, Governor of New York, is turning from a Democratic walkaway into a neck-and-neck sprint...
...meadows and mountains were greening into summer, Democrats were preening with unqualified exuberance. In the fight for the statehouse, they had an unquestionable advantage, i.e., they held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them to slave for Ave. Periodically...
...tradition, Rockefeller one afternoon last winter called an unpublicized family council in the 56th-floor Rockefeller Center suite from which the Rockefellers guide their worldwide enterprises and philanthropies. To his brothers he outlined his newest intention: he was anxious to run for office; some Republicans suggested he announce for Governor. Said he: "I think I'll give it a whirl...