Word: governors
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Wagner quit just in time to do his fellow Democrats the most good. Had he resigned after July 8, Governor Thomas E. Dewey could have appointed a Republican successor to serve until January 1951. Now, although Dewey may appoint someone to fill the post temporarily, a special fall election must be held to elect a Senator to fill out Wagner's term. New Yorkers were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself...
...Honolulu, the governor's impartial fact-finding board hopefully suggested a cure for the two-month-old waterfront strike which was slowly paralyzing Hawaiian industry (TIME, July 4). The board proposed a 14?-an-hour pay raise for Harry Bridges' striking stevedores. Reluctantly, the islands' seven struck stevedoring companies agreed to pay. In Washington, President Truman said that the striking dockworkers should accept the offer; Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug telephoned Hawaii's Acting Governor Oren Long to say that the Administration was squarely behind the proposal...
...overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that "some dark night" somebody steal the three ancient cannons in front of the Capitol at Jefferson City; when somebody did, Governor (now Senator) Forrest Donnell ordered Coghlan's arrest for larceny (he was later acquitted...
...Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively as under Coghlan; staffers hoped it would be better balanced and sounder...
Married. Fuller Warren, 43, Florida's camera-conscious, "cracker boy" Governor; and Barbara Manning, 23, blonde California secretary; he for the third time; in Los Angeles...