Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highways to everywhere, dental work for everybody, pensions for the old folks and bonuses for veterans-all this and more Earl Long promised the citizens of Louisiana if they would elect him governor. "Welcome" would be written over the capital door. "The governor gets his house free, and his groceries and everything free," Earl proclaimed, "and I want you all to come up to the mansion and have a cup of coffee. You might as well, because you'll be paying for it anyhow...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
...great outdoors' Bernarr Macfadden, 79, scaled his hat into the ring for Governor of Florida. He had no platform yet, said the everlasting strength-through-carrots-and-sex champion, but: "Naturally I will play up in a big way the health angle...
North Carolina's Governor Robert Gregg Cherry had automobile trouble. His stately, plump black Packard was one of the first cars to be examined under the state's new compulsory-inspection law. It flunked. Faulty lights...
...Southern states shared Oklahoma's hopes & fears. At a conference of five Southern governors, Florida's Governor Millard Caldwell put forward a plan he had long been plumping for. Since few states could afford to build separate professional schools for Negroes, why didn't the five states get together and take over a going campus, turn it into a great university* to serve all their Negroes...