Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coalition would be an imposing force in the Senate. Last week, having won on filibuster and civil rights, it also kicked Harry Truman where it always hurts him most-in a matter involving his friendships. The President had nominated his poker-pal, Mon C. Wallgren, ex-governor of Washington, as head of the National Security Resources Board. An amiable mediocrity, Wallgren had no visible qualifications for the job of planning the military, industrial and civilian mobilization of the U.S. On the Senate Armed Services Committee, Virginia's Harry Byrd, one of the leaders of the rebellious Southern Democrats, joined...
...mobsters of from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually without debate, 125 to 1. The senate and Governor Beauford Jester were expected to make...
Across the line in Arkansas, aggressive, young (36) Governor Sidney S. McMath was having as much trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...
Ryan dumped $500,000 into something he called the National Foundation for Good Government. It would scotch corruption not only in New York but elsewhere. He railed at Governor Tom Dewey for not investigating Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's administration. He trotted down to City Hall with ten questions for O'Dwyer. Their substance: Is Slot Machine Tycoon Frankie Costello the real boss of New York City...
Nick Beal is a guy who'll double-deal you for a nickel or fifty grand, just so long as it's good and dirty. This time his target is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), a pious D.A. who is running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...