Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman was in hot water again. Leaving Washington for a two-day cruise on the Potomac accompanied only by his naval aide, the President precipitately decided on his new Secretary of Labor: handsome, 47-year-old Maurice J. Tobin, Boston's popular ex-mayor and former governor of Massachusetts (1945-46). The one point the President had neglected was to get Tobin's acceptance in advance. A candidate for governor again, Tobin was in no hurry to make up his mind about accepting or rejecting the Cabinet job. Before he did either, he was going to have...
...Crump, the 73-year-old monarch of Memphis, once boasted: "I've never been beaten in any election I ever took part in, even when it was running for captain of the baseball team in school." Since 1928, when his candidate for governor lost out in the primary, Ed Crump had always made good on his boast. Last week, he was trying to swallow...
Tennessee voters, casting the biggest primary vote in the state's history, gave the last of the big city bosses a terrific pasting. They gleefully smothered his handpicked candidates and nominated two of his archenemies-Gordon Browning for Governor and Estes Kefauver for U.S. Senator...
...violence continued, Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert rushed to Dayton and persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order at the plant. This week, pickets still marched, but Univis apparently would stay open for business...
...G.O.P. convention ended-without indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for duty next fall, he promised-if he had finished his speaking tour "on behalf of Governor Dewey...