Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smith had a fat majority of votes, the widest margin of all his six races for the Senate. In the textile towns, millworkers had poured out to vote for Governor Johnston, aroused by President Roosevelt's promise of a better deal for labor. But many mill hands and most propertied people and almost all the cotton growers -sharecroppers as well as landlords- trooped to the polls to vote for Cotton Ed, the farmers' friend...
Democratic nominee for Governor was white-crowned, benign-looking, Danish-blooded Culbert L. Olson of Los Angeles...
...silvery of tongue as of hair, Mr. Olson first showed his political potency in 1934 when, as nominee for State Senator, he carried Los Angeles County by 400,000 votes while the rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control of oil lands, especially those lying off shore beneath the sea, which are now being tapped by private interests...
...Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens. The Conservative platform: the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, to fight Communism. Fascism, Naziism. C.I.O., American Labor Party and Franklin Roosevelt's intended "purge" of Democratic Representative John J. O'Connor. Heading a full State ticket as candidate for Governor is Conservative Harvey...
Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...