Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears in more political hot water than usual. He had raised the hackles of his stooped, shambling, shrewd colleague, Pat Harrison, by backing onetime Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner against Harrison for the Senate in 1936, and of Mike Conner, by helping to beat him for the Governorship last year. Worse, his fat, bespectacled ex-wife Linda publicly denounced him for cruelty and infidelity. Opposed by popular onetime Governor Hugh Lawson White...
...caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held by a Negro. Having lined up a small garrison of colonial troops, Rebel Eboue proclaimed allegiance to General de Gaulle: "... The people of Chad will defend their territory for France against all comers...
...abyss," he cried to the Empire. From Winston Churchill came a quick letter of assurance that French colonies who supported England's cause would receive the same trade and political concessions as British possessions. The Vichy Government denounced Britain for fostering the revolt, discharged Eboue from his governorship, declared wishfully that "all necessary dispositions have been taken to localize the situation...
...photographers off-balance as fast as they could get set for a picture. Almost as often came bald Frank C. Walker, oldtime White House adviser, white-haired Leo Crowley, FDIC Chairman who became chairman of Standard Gas & Electric (and is the New Dealers' 1942 hopeful for the Wisconsin Governorship); Jersey City's high-collared Mayor Frank Hague; and a long procession of men who had been tentatively promised the Vice-Presidency...
...London the press stoutly helped boost the prestige of the new post. The businesslike Times pointed out that the governorship will become increasingly important (with the eventual disposition of the French West Indies yet to be decided and U. S. good will to be courted). The Daily Mail concentrated on the recreational facilities of the archipelago, described the Bahamas as "isles of pirate gold" and the playground of rich Americans...