Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real love is the country and he spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...
...without weapons of his own. His rear was secure. The Republican organization of western Pennsylvania, led by Banker Richard Mellon, was solidly behind him. The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) delegates had already announced their intention of following his lead. Above all, he would still be governor of the state for 2½ more years, with 40,000 state jobs at his disposal...
...early. The next morning he rocketed off to Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could forget a kiss from such a lady...
...group of Virginia's Democratic bigwigs turned up with greetings from rebel Governor William M. Tuck. All grace, Dewey replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...
This week he stopped in Albany long enough to pick up his wife and two sons and then was off to New Castle, N.H. for the 40th annual Governors' Conference. There he chatted easily with California's Governor Earl Warren (see below), and with newsmen. They asked him whether he had read Harry Truman's western speeches. "From what I could gather from . . . headlines," the governor answered, "it did not seem like a profitable way to spend my time." Did he think he would get the nomination? He certainly did, "and after not too many ballots...