Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please labor. The Republican leadership in Congress had sponsored and pushed through the law. The fact that a majority of Democrats voted for the law was offset by the strong veto of the President. The Taft-Hartley Law made it impossible for even Republican labor leadership to endorse Governor Dowey. Under the New Deal there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union, McFetridge of the Building Service Employees, endorsed the Republican nominee. Lewis was strongly against Truman, it is true...
ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption...
OHIO. Tall, curly-haired, able Democrat Frank Lausche, 52, admired by both Democrats and Republicans for his record as Cleveland's mayor (1941-44) and governor (1945-46), evened his score against Republican Governor Thomas Herbert, who had defeated Lausche in the 1946 Republican sweep. Lausche, who had had little to do with organization Democrats, ran far ahead of Harry Truman...
INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
Exasperated Man. The.first letter in the book is a cool request to the governor of Virginia (written when Poe was 15) asking that the Richmond Junior Volunteers, in which he was a lieutenant, be allowed to keep their arms. It sets the tone for the book. Poe's letters were brisk and businesslike-requests for books to review, offers to sell stories, proposals to start new literary magazines, attempts to wangle copy from contributors like Longfellow, Hawthorne, or James Russell Lowell. When Poe became editor of Graham's Magazine it had 5,000 subscribers. When he left...