Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place in the Manhattan public school was jammed. Swarming photographers and reporters awaited the arrival of the President-apparent. As police sirens wailed, bystanders craned and pushed for a glimpse of the man everyone expected to become the 33rd President of the United States. Applause spattered about him as Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey stepped from...
Said he: "We now know that Governor Dewey will carry New York State by 50,000 and will be the next President of the United States." Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
...Owosso, Mich., Governor Thomas...
...decline of conservative power does not date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...