Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $8 million). His talent for politics is as well developed as his ambition and business shrewdness. He started ringing doorbells for the Democratic Party before he was out of Providence College, has held almost every party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated his vote-getting talent in 1944, when he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Franklin Roosevelt. In the Senate, McGrath has been serious, hardworking, unafraid of the toughest Republican jousters, and New Dealish...
...None May Plot Murder." The Chinese had hoped to conciliate the Ili rebels by granting local self-government, by accepting as vice governor of Sinkiang (in a coalition Government) one of the rebels themselves. But the Chinese were wondering. Young (32), trim Vice Governor Achmadjahm had suddenly packed his belongings and family last month. In a Russian plane they flew to the northwest...
...said that if the Republicans nominate Governor Dewey it would mean that the G.O.P. was definitely committed to what he called a war policy, and characterized as "unfortunate" the bi-partisan aspects of President Truman's foreign policy...
Born. To George Howard Earle, 56, stocky, outspoken ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, ex-U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria, and second wife Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacré Earle, 25, brunette Belgian beauty whom he married in Turkey two years ago: a daughter (her first child, his fifth); in Philadelphia. Name: Jacqueline. Weight...
...bastard son of an English King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will...