Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
...Commitments. Californians accepted the finality of his decision. But they questioned its wisdom. The questioning spread-to the floor of the Convention hall and into the newspapers. There were reasons, quickly understood, for Warren's keeping the Governorship. It pays better than the Vice-Presidency ($10,000 plus $15,000 in perquisites, against $15,000 for the Vice-Presidency), and Warren has a family of six children to consider. If the Republicans lost, he would be nowhere; if they won, he would have the dull, gavel-rapping, Throttlebottom job that only a President's death makes important...
...free case of Scotch (any brand) to each $10,000 bond purchaser, sold a case at ceiling price to buyers of a $5,000 bond. Three days' take: $78,000. ¶ The New Mexico boy or girl who sold the most bonds was promised a day's Governorship of the state. ¶ Major Allen V. Martini, 23, Army Air Forces hero, told 30,000 people in Wilmington, Del., to ask themselves: "What have I done today that a mother's son should die for me tonight...
...Pillars of Peace, proposed by the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, March 29, 1943). Political writers have already nominated him for Secretary of State. Herbert Brownell, 40, also a Manhattan lawyer, one of Tom Dewey's oldest personal friends, and his campaign manager in the 1942 governorship race. Nebraska-born, Brownell graduated from the University of Nebraska, won a scholarship to Yale Law School, where he edited the Yale Law Journal. From 1933 to 1937 in the New York Legislature, he sponsored many of Tom Dewey's criminal-reform bills. These men will plan the grand strategy...
...Cincinnati, to succeed John Bricker as Governor. Cleveland's able Frank Lausche (rhymes with howshay), his party's hottest vote getter in a decade (TIME, Nov. 15), got 30,000 more votes than his five opponents combined. Democrats jubilantly figured he might not only win the Governorship but also lure Republican Ohio into the Term IV column in November...