Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reno, the President had spoken "to an acre and a half of people." In Los Angeles he had addressed "30,000 people in Gilmore Stadium and they seemed highly interested." He said, further: "The governor of Texas met me [in El Paso] and we went across Texas, and I must have seen a million people in Texas...
...much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...Governor Robert E. Bradford '23, billed to speak at tonight's Young Republican Club meeting, yesterday told the HYRC that he won't be able to attend. In his place, Executive Councilor Otis M. Whitney, former Representative from Concord, will deliver the keynote address...
...Mexico's rampaging Senatorial Candidate Pat Hurley, who is in a tooth & nail fight with ex-Agriculture Secretary Clint Anderson, had already explained to Warren why he could not follow the Warren line. "Pat," Warren had urged, "don't fight 'em, unify 'em." Replied Hurley: "Governor, I've got to fight 'em. Clint Anderson's got me out-unified...
Handsome General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...