Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news from Louisiana was that Governor Earl Long, after only seven months in office, was slipping. "Old Earl" looked like brother Huey, talked like Huey, and tried to act like Huey. But he was no Huey. By last week, Louisiana was pretty well fed up with...
...election, Earl had taken a terrific shellacking-a defeat made the more humiliating because it was administered by his old enemy, New Orleans' aggressive young mayor, deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison. Already holding more power than any other U.S. governor, Earl had asked the voters to approve 41 constitutional amendments which would have vastly extended his control over state spending. One amendment would have given him domination of the port of New Orleans through control of the Dock Board which supervises the port's increasing commerce. Another would have made Louisiana State University a mere political subdivision of the governor...
Another traveler, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell, who had run into the ambassador in Detroit, volunteered a typical American appraisal. "Everyone will respect him for his earnestness and sincerity," Governor Caldwell said, but he thought Sir Oliver would be a hard man to get to know...
Mama had scarcely had time to read the letter before the news was out. The Democrats had nominated her son for governor by acclamation. Mama wrote Franklin: "Eleanor telephoned me before I got my papers that you have to 'run' for the Governorship. Well, I am sorry if you do not feel that you can do it without too much self sacrifice, and yet if you run I do not want you to be defeated...
Maryland's Governor-elect and a newspaper writer were on the panel...