Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Record. In Little Rock, Ark., Acting Governor Nathan Gordon justified his reduction of Amos Wilson's sentence for second-degree murder from nine to two years: "During the time he has been in the penitentiary he has been a law-abiding citizen...
...private car (the Aleutian), California's Governor Earl Warren, a man noted for his hearty friendliness, chatted with newsmen, read some pages of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, leisurely drank three bourbon highballs before dinner. By midnight, as the train headed toward Utah, he was asleep...
...throw off his folksy, nonpartisan role for a slashing attack on the Democratic administration. Instead, Candidate Warren unmistakably showed his intention of campaigning in his own unorthodox way, in the same reasoned, almost nonpartisan approach which he had used in his successful California campaigns for attorney general and governor. The 1,700 Republican workers, who only half filled the South High School auditorium, listened in bewildered silence...
...contribution to modern U.S. politics is the somewhat novel discovery that good government does not necessarily depend on good party politics. As a candidate for governor of California in 1946 he won an unprecedented renomination on both Democratic and Republican tickets, promptly appointed men of both parties to state office. To some party regulars, such action was close to party treason. To Warren, it meant a rise in his popularity...
...Governor Dummer...