Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OKLAHOMA. Despite the best-organized, best-financed campaign in years, Congressman Ross Rizley was conceded little chance to defeat the Democrats' wealthy ex-Governor Bob Kerr for the seat vacated by ancient Senator Ed Moore. Backed by labor and a strong Democratic tradition, Bob Kerr cried: "Rizley is a reactionary, standpat, Roosevelt-hating, Ed Moore and Bob Taft Republican...
WEST VIRGINIA. Republican Chapman Revercomb had surprised even himself in 1942 by edging out demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
WYOMING. The edge last week lay with Democratic Governor Lester Hunt. A friendly, fast-traveling campaigner, he was winning friends among the coal miners and oil workers by plumping for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, winning friends among the sheepmen and cattlemen by promising more reclamation projects. It was the toughest kind of competition for dignified, stiff-necked Senator Edward Robertson, who had never starred at the backslapping, baby-kissing game...
...into political no-man's land. Appearing in Baltimore, in the border state of Maryland, he was met by a college student dressed in the full regalia of a Confederate brigadier and a mildly interested audience. Standing just over on his side of the Mason-Dixon line, the governor of South Carolina sounded his defiance...
...Civil Rights Committee flatly recommended outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...