Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin was looking for signs of wavering, it found no comfort in the Republican opposition. At his Pawling, N.Y. farm, Governor Thomas E. Dewey conferred with Harold Stassen, talked daily with Foreign Adviser Dulles, who had been thoroughly briefed by George Marshall. General Dwight Eisenhower accepted an urgent invitation to come up for a talk. At a joint press conference, Eisenhower declared: "We agreed that our country must stand with absolute firmness in Berlin...
...South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the bolting Dixiecrats (TIME, July 26), confirmed the birth of a fourth party (the States' Rights Democrats), announced that it would try to get on the ballot in every state. Said he: "We are running for President and Vice President and expect to be elected...
...Georgia's ex-pretender-Governor Herman Talmadge hitched himself to the same pair of red suspenders his late pappy Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...
Idlewild Airport Dedication (Sat. 2:30 p.m., all radio networks; ABC & NBC television). President Harry Truman, Governor Thomas E. Dewey and New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...just Hyde Park friends of the Roosevelts, come down to look after them," Husband ("Dad") Nesbitt blandly told the world. (Mrs. Nesbitt had often baked and cooked on big occasions when F.D.R. was governor of New York.) Mrs. Roosevelt was waiting in the Red Room when the Nesbitts arrived, and she said: "I'll show you over"; and so "we started out together at a trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen...