Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first state-financed theatre in the country and the first professional theatre built in the Boston area since 1925 was dedicated last Thursday evening by Governor Furcolo in an impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...
Minutes after being introduced to Mazo, Warren attacked a passage of the book that opened up one of the old sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
...Name Endorsement. Warren's dislike for "a fellow named Nixon" began with Nixon's first race for Congress in Southern California in 1946. It picked up steam after Nixon's election, because Warren, in his campaign for Governor, was virtually nonpartisan, while Nixon was enthusiastically partisan and attracted the support of Southern California Republicans who wanted to build a permanent party organization...
When Nixon made his celebrated race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...
Married. Hope Aldrich Rockefeller, 21, daughter of John D. Rockefeller III, niece of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and John Spencer, 27, son of the late Poet-Professor Theodore Spencer (from 1946-49 holder of Harvard's prestigious Boylston chair of rhetoric and oratory); in Irvington...