Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag the senatorial candidate, Carroll Recce, into high office along with...
California's Governor Earl Warren, 57, father of six, got an election-year posy. He was named one of the "most virile men in America" by an organization calling itself the International Artists Committee. Among the other he-men honored: Cinemactors Clark Gable, 47, and Victor ("Gorgeous Hunk of Man") Mature. Gushed the committee' s chairman: "They're positively loaded with hormones...
...York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington. And this is what makes the Governor's campaign difficult to understand. It is difficult to see where his proposed Department of Social Welfare would fit into such a "house-cleaned" Administration. And it is difficult to reconcile Mr. Dewey's talk of federal reclamation and flood control with his support of the Republican policy of leaving control...
...Dewey's opponent has little of the Governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation...
...factors have prevented the realization of President Truman's domestic program: his own administrative weaknesses and the antipathy of the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. But because this program seems to be more beneficial to the nation than does the program of Governor Dewey and his party, the CRIMSON urges the election of President Truman...