Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Staten Island, N. Y., one George Sheridan, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, mortgaged his home, bet $15,000 at 5 to 4 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected Governor, banked...
...show that Herbert Hoover had needed only 275,000 more votes, properly distributed, to get the electoral votes of the eight-State fragment that he lacked of a State-unanimous election. As easily, the New York World, and Professor Frank G. Dickenson of the University of Illinois, showed that Governor Smith lacked only some 354,000 votes, properly placed-about 1% of the total votes cast-to be elected President with 268 electoral votes...
Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem...
...kind of work that needed doing at once was what Governor Byrd of Virginia started planning-measures to get the anti-Smith Democrats back into their party before Hooverism's efficient follow-up men should come along to make permanent the breaches in the onetime Solid South. Governor Byrd's plan was to abolish his State's primary election, to which Hoover Democrats could not be admitted...
Roosevelt-Moody. Eager though he was to dissolve its national personnel, redheaded Governor Moody was not without constructive ideas about his party's future. In the same breath with which he condemned Mr. Raskob, he hailed the man to whom Governor Smith's, political potency had obviously passed. Said he: "The tremendous vote given Franklin D. Roosevelt by the citizens of the Empire State [for Governor] attest the esteem in which he is held by the people of the State and mark for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of thought in national affairs...