Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought with him a whole troupe of campaigners: Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl and Senator Ed Thye; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. While they stumped on their own, Stassen kept rolling: to a breakfast of the Platte County Republicans at Columbus (where he promised the Midwest a Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...
Some no miles away in Sian, Shensi's Governor Chu Shao-chou, unable to reach Huang Ti's tomb this year, led a Nationalist ceremony of "distant obeisance...
...Chicago Tribune gave WGN-TV, its new television station (Chicago's second), a razzle-dazzle opening. Boss Bertie McCormick, laid up with a cold, had to watch the ceremonies on the big screen at his Wheaton estate; but Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, Mayor Kennelly and Governor Green turned up at the studio to blow congratulatory kisses...
...school, left his farm outside Joliet (Ill.) and headed his car for the city. It was press night for the 21st anniversary issue of his tabloid weekly Spectator-the last issue before the Illinois Republican primary. Stocky Editor McCabe, a onetime Republican state's attorney and opponent of Governor Dwight Green's machine, was a candidate for ward committeeman...
...Governor Earl Warren...