Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Withdrew, after once vowing that he never would, the nomination of his old poker pal, former Governor Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, as $14,000-a-year chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which did not think ex-Senator Wallgren was up to the job, had pigeonholed the nomination for three months...
...salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany-two of them as U.S. Military Governor-Lucius Clay had come home to a hero's welcome...
Reuther immediately charged that this "shift" had "killed the service," and that "no amount of double-talk can now conceal the complete submergence of the Board of Regents and Governor Kim Sigler to the General Motors Corporation...
Reuther had connected-Sigler's opposition to the workers' service with purported G. M. contributions to the Governor's campaign fund. Sigler denied this on October 22. The extension program, he added, "is not being given up. It is being changed here and there...
...Governor also retorted to charges by Williams, his opponent, that he was playing politics with the workers' service. "This election," he commented, "is a question of whether the radicals, reds, and pinks, who have hitched on to the Democratic Party, or the Republicans" will win. He was defeated 11 days later...