Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no fears about this thing," he began diffidently. "When your number is up-well, your number is up. So I am going to speak frankly to you." Then well-dressed Governor Sigler (he has 43 suits plus a morning coat) kept his promise...
...office of governor of Michigan," he said, "is now the crummiest job in the U.S." A man, he grumped, should be elected for four years instead of two. That way he would have time to develop a program instead of thinking about re-election a couple of months after...
...complaints was almost wistful: "If I don't get out of the hospital, for heaven's sake see that the next governor of Michigan has a place in which to live." The state has no governor's mansion. Governor Sigler lives with his wife in a three-room suite in the Olds Hotel across the street from the Capitol in Lansing. He said it gives him "cloisteritis...
...Governor Harold Stassen reported on results of a six-state speaking tour from Colorado through the South to Florida (most of which is usually considered Taft territory). So far, he calculated hopefully, he had picked up 54 convention votes out of a possible 114. His claimed first-ballot total...
...Governor Tom Dewey enjoyed a cautious bout of political doubletalk with a traveling foreign diplomat. Discussing France's Charles de Gaulle, the diplomat declared himself strongly against any general as chief of state. Grinning broadly, Candidate Dewey, with at least one other general in mind, nodded enthusiastic agreement...