Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Henderson Duff, governor of Pennsylvania, is a strapping redhead with the comfortable girth of an archbishop and the piercing eyes of an evangelist. Last week, full of evangelical hellfire, Big Jim proclaimed himself the prophet of a new kind of Pennsylvania Republicanism...
...manufacturers chomped nervously on their cigars. This was not the kind of advice they were accustomed to hearing from anyone, let alone a Republican governor. But Big Jim was only warming up. Hopping mad about the latest goings-on in steel, he cried: "For one of our greatest corporations and one of our most powerful labor unions to take action, however separate, which has the effect of acting in concert to further raise prices, shows a shocking disregard for public opinion and the national welfare...
...Poetry. PMAsters, many a steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...Governor Tom Dewey, who likes things tidy, the reports coming in to the executive mansion at Albany were disturbing. Hustling Harold Stassen, who had been more places than Kilroy, was chopping into Dewey's strength in states he had checked off as sure things...
...Embassy and the American Mission for Aid denied correspondents' charges that Greece had no free press. "There is as real a freedom of the press in Greece today," said the official statement, "as there is in the U.S." It was an overstatement. The same day Athens' military governor arrested two editors of the Socialist weekly Mahi. Their offense: printing a clemency petition from political prisoners, and an editorial deploring the execution of former ELAS guerrillas...