Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt might be able to beat Luckey; he would have a harder time beating Governor Earl Warren, who, though a Republican,"in 1946 ran far out in front on both Republican and Democratic tickets, under California's cross-filing system. Some of Warren's friends said he was still uncertain whether to run for a third term as governor. If he did, Jimmy Roosevelt was obviously banking on an asset which none of Warren's previous opponents had ever boasted-a magic name. Lately Jimmy had been making Sunday-night radio talks, right after Walter Winchell...
...shiny new Shamrock hotel was only one week old when Elson, Griffith and Johnson put up there for the night after lunching with Governor Beauford Jester in Austin. Owner McCarthy met them in the Shamrock's mirrored and muraled Cork Club the next day, where they talked while workmen wheeled slatted crates containing the unmounted heads of prize steers-McCarthy's latest trophies - through the upholstered premises. Ex-Wildcatter McCarthy, a lively man even by Texas standards seemed somewhat tired. He had been up most of the night fighting an oil well fire...
...soon had hired three pressagents and a five-room headquarters in Los Angeles' Spring Arcade Building. Last week in an off-the-record speech at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club (which he happily corroborated for the record, afterward), he announced that he was "seriously considering running for governor of California...
Luckey Strike. The announcement, which many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...life, since I was a young lawyer, I have wanted to be a judge," Connecticut's big, friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...