Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in two months, President Truman had a full Cabinet. After four days of public hesitation, Massachusetts' tall, personable ex-Governor Maurice Tobin accepted appointment as Secretary of Labor...
...both Tobin and Truman, the deal was good politics. In the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Tobin faced probable defeat by ex-State Attorney General Paul A. Dever. Even if he won, in November he would have to face Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford, who beat him badly...
...twice broken all modern records for emitting rebel yells, waving the Confederate flag, and complaining about the North. Nevertheless, with the Democratic National Convention and their own Birmingham convention behind them, they gathered in Houston last week and went through the noisy act all over again. The occasion: Governor J. Strom Thurmond's formal acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination...
...Fort. On Roanoke Island, N.C., archeologists got closer to the unanswered riddle of the "Lost Colony." Results from excavations started over a year ago have convinced Jean C. ("Pinky") Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...
...borrowed capital. Now it has eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that he had been making scheduled flights (forbidden under his "irregular" registration) for the last five months...