Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a half, he conferred with Dewey over the position he had refused in 1944. He laid down a condition: the job must have more responsibilities than simply presiding over the Senate; it must have authority. As the father of five, he was concerned about income. As governor of California, he gets the equivalent of $50,000 a year, including a free residence, cars and plane. As Vice President, his salary would be only $20,000-with $32,385 expense money (for his office) and $5,000 for a car, but no official residence...
...opponents were formidable. One was Governor Horace A. Hildreth, who was heavily and generously backed by the regular Republican organization, the power companies and many large corporations. Another was former Governor Sumner Sewall, a man who had never lost an election. The third starter was Albion P. Beverage, a Congregational minister with no previous political experience (and, as it turned out, no subsequent political following...
While they talked, Kaifeng fell. Refugees reported the death of Honan's Governor Liu Mao-en. They added, bitterly, that a Nationalist air attack had killed more civilians than had the Communists...
Though many foreign observers had been rooting for Arthur Vandenberg because they knew where he stood, they conceded that Tom Dewey would not be too bad. Moscow, of course, stuck with damaging loyalty to Henry Wallace and denounced Dewey as a "prophet of imperialism." Le Parisien announced the governor's victory thus: "Tom Dewey is only one meter 56 centimeters tall, but his voice is the most radiophonic...
Handsome Lady Mountbatten flew home from New Delhi with her handsome husband, who had just retired as Britain's last Governor General of India (TIME, June 28), after a well-nigh unforgettable leave-taking from his successor, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari...