Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pausing in New York on his way to the Governors' Conference at New Castle, N.H., California's big, ruddy Governor Earl Warren gave the Eastern seaboard a quick look at himself...
Accompanied by his wife and pretty 17-year-old daughter Dorothy, the governor moved unostentatiously around the town. Then he took off for the Governors' Conference, where he firmly refused to discuss his chances with reporters. A non-partisan conference, said Candidate Warren, seemed to him scarcely the place to talk partisan politics...
...Republicans, accustomed to fast moves by their bosses, could hardly believe that Bill Jenner would put his hard-driving ambition into reverse. But he came back to the state, politicked at the fish frys, backslapped the hill boys, and swore that the limit of his ambition was to be governor, not senator...
Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
Last week, at Indiana's Republican convention in Indianapolis, Bill Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...