Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vilification. Mrs. Roosevelt retired into shocked silence. Just as shocked but not as silent, New York's ex-Governor Herbert Lehman rushed to Mrs. Roosevelt's defense. "The issue is not whether one agrees or disagrees with Mrs. Roosevelt," he said. "The issue is whether Americans are entitled freely to express their views on public questions without being vilified or accused of religious bias...
...Prosecutor. Near the end of his second mayoralty term, F.D.R. sent him off to serve as Governor General of the Philippines, where he helped reform the islands' judicial system, improved its hospitals and pushed through suffrage. He returned in 1936 to get himself elected governor of Michigan...
...first time in 25 years, the quiet, efficient, socially backward political machine of Harry Flood Byrd had a real fight on its hands. In Virginia's genteel valleys and sun-beaten towns, politicians were actually out campaigning for governor...
With the primary only a week off (in Virginia, as in all the South, the Republicans do not count), three mavericks were out to break the firm grip which Senator Byrd keeps on the governor's mansion of his home state. Debate waxed hot on Virginia's hustings. At pre-primary barbecues, crab feasts and picnics, Harry Byrd's obedient lieutenants acted like men who had to work for votes...
Lanny: You are worried [about the U.S.], Governor...