Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 17 days of golf and rest in Arizona sunshine, Tom Dewey returned last week to his job in Albany. He had gained five pounds and his tanned jowls showed it. Newsmen pressed him with questions about his future. Would he run in 1950 for a third term as governor of New York? Dewey smiled, reminded the reporters that he had answered that question the day after election. He had said then "I have no such plans." Now he added: "I will let you know if I change my mind...
...addition to the Administration would be Washington's lame-duck Governor Mon C. Wallgren, who had sat right behind Harry Truman in the Senate. The word was that the President would employ Wallgren as a liaison man between the White House and his old friends in Congress...
Hummon Steps In. Thus harassed, Georgia's newly inaugurated Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge acted fast. On his orders, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation moved in with dispatch. Four days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical...
...California's Governor Earl Warren was back at his desk in Sacramento after a brief vacation in Williams, Calif. In a couple of hours, he had managed to bag the two-bird limit of pheasant, and pose for a hearty sportsman picture...
...third vacancy in the executive phalanx, the political touts figure that somebody is bound to die, retire, or otherwise disappear from among the remaining nine positions. They point knowingly to figures who accompany the President on vacation jaunts (such as Governor Wallgren of Washington, ousted in the recent election). They also point knowingly to figures who do not accompany the President anywhere (such as General Eisenhower). These people, the commentators reveal, are dark horses for the Cabinet, which means that somebody has to get out to make room for them...