Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. Despite C. I. O.'s endorsement, he lost a lot of miners' votes in eastern and southern counties but his home counties of western Kentucky backed him solidly and the northern counties, where Flood Relief and WPA benefits had been lavished most heavily, deserted Governor Chandler. On Monday came Louisville's tabulations, and the Barkley margin climbed above...
Prime scandal of the 1938 primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor...
...reason for this surprise ending was that Tennessee's voters, even outside of Crump-controlled Shelby County, clearly indicated their repudiation of Senator Berry and Governor Browning. Pluralities of 86,000 and 74,000, respectively, were returned for the Crump-McKellar candidates, Lawyer Arthur Thomas Stewart of Winchester and Lawyer Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville. In politically amoral Memphis the Crumpsters could afford to conduct themselves so that there was nothing amiss for the Senate watchers to see. In the Crump precincts, normally delivered practically in toto to Crump candidates, Governor Browning was allowed to poll 9,000 votes against...
...majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State Supreme Court, by 117,000 votes over Judge James V. Billings of Kennett, candidate of non-New Dealish Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City...
Kansas produced no score for or against Franklin Roosevelt in the immediate primary game, since the New Deal's Kansas candidates were virtually unopposed. But in the Republican voting came a possible portent for November-the nomination of onetime (1929-31) Governor Clyde M. Reed for the Senate in a heavy G. O. P. vote. Superficial but spectacular was Mr. Reed's defeat...