Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed...
...After talking with President Roosevelt, uppity Publisher Vann repeated from the White House steps his advice to Pennsylvania Negroes to elect a Republican Governor (TIME...
Leverett Saltonstall '17, Republican candidate for Governor in Tuesday's election, finds his mottoes for political life not in the contemporary catch-words of a campaign but in the simple word "Veritas" in the Harvard shield...
...candidate for Governor showed a greater willingness to answer questions than Lynch liked, particularly on the Harvard scene with its implications of "Bourbonism," and the latter several times imposed censorship. Saltonstall is an Overseer of the University...
...question as to the progress of the campaign brought a definite statement. "I am confident that the good judgement of the people of Massachusetts will make them elect me their Governor on next Tuesday...