Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Didn't It?" Taft's first target was Secretary of Labor Tobin, lean, broad-shouldered Boston politician and onetime Massachusetts governor, whose frame and fitness gives him the look of a retired first-baseman. Tobin had been sent up to Capitol Hill to defend the Administration's slightly blurred substitute for the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, Feb. 7). One of its foggiest points was whether the President would have the right to an injunction to stop strikes which imperiled the national welfare-a right clearly stated in the Taft-Hartley Act. Attorney General Tom Clark sent along...
When young (37) G. Mennen Williams, onetime Princeton oarsman, surprised himself and his fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign...
Adding to the confusion early in the week was a startling announcement by Kwangtung's new governor, General Hsueh Yueh: he favored a southern coalition of provinces to continue the fight against Communism. The next day he meekly blamed the statement on "faulty translation," and sent a message to Nanking disavowing any intention of upsetting Li Tsung-jen's peace negotiations. Concluded Governor Hsueh: "I have no ideas of my own. Please do not worry...
...Paper. That afternoon, while government speakers droned on, Convention President Mercante, who is provincial governor of Buenos Aires and one of Perón's closest friends, met with Peronista leaders. Shortly afterwards, the majority floor leader, Angel Miel Asquia, came out to tell the press that they had decided to drop the proposal to let a President succeed himself...
...Dixiecrat Daily News (circ. 31,000) of Jackson, Miss, got down to a new journalistic low in disrespect for the presidency and its fellow man. In a frontpage editorial, Editor Frederick Sullens, 71, who was once caned by Mississippi's late Governor Paul B. Johnson for his editorial attacks, damned the President's civil rights program as "mongrelization of the races." Excerpts: "The real Democratic party in Mississippi will never be dominated by renegades, lickspittles, opportunists, carpetbaggers, and deserters of the white race. And, if President Truman thinks [Mississippi Democrats] intend to meekly bow down...