Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grandpa Thurmond's son John saw the South meet violence with violence. John studied law and hitched his star to "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman,* South Carolina's demagogic Governor and Senator. Ben Tillman had a short answer for the Negro problem. He told the U.S. Senate: "We shot them. We are not ashamed of it ... We will not submit to Negro domination under any conditions that you may prescribe...
Dictation from the Governor. The war interrupted Strom's political career. He had had an outstanding but not distinguished record as a judge: the state supreme court reversed a higher percentage of his decisions than those of any other judge. But his record in the war was one to point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became...
Life at the Executive Mansion is bustling and informal. While the governor is running for President, everyone else is running for Thurmond. To get him to engagements, State Police Sergeant Huss Fennell drives him around at 80 m.p.h...
...wife, whom he calls "Sugar," almost always goes with him. Both Strom and Sugar are Baptists, teetotalers and nonsmokers. The virile governor keeps himself in trim by riding, walking, and standing on his head...
...woman with an instinct for privacy, Mrs. Roosevelt reportedly never let her picture appear in a newspaper until her husband was elected Vice President (although he had previously been New York City Police Commissioner and Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always...