Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little help from impish, blimpish Michael V. Di Salle, onetime Price Boss now running for U.S. Senator against the incumbent John Bricker, who is probably the best vote getter in Ohio. The G.O.P. ticket is further buttressed by the candidacy of Bob Taft's brother Charles for the governorship now held by popular Democrat Frank Lausche. If anybody can beat Lausche, Charles Taft...
Virginia's conservative Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 65, has controlled his state for 27 years-ever since he won the governorship back in 1925 and wrested control of the rural Democratic machine from Bishop James Cannon Jr., chairman of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Since World War II the Senator has had a lot of criticism and competition. In 1946, a Richmond lawyer named Martin A. Hutchinson ran up a startling 82,000 votes (against Byrd's 142,000) in the senatorial primary; in 1949, wellborn; Colonel Francis Pickens Miller...
...people live. Aloé is popularly dubbed "Peroncito"-Little Perón. As Big Perón's secretary from 1946 until 1951, he bossed the Peronista press and masterminded the closing of La Prensa. The President rewarded him by making him the official candidate for the governorship; the self-effacing onetime sergeant won without a single campaign speech...
...were not for outgoing President Aleman, Ruiz Cortines might still be preparing statistical reports. Thirteen years ago, Aleman took Cortines on as an aide and factotum. As Aleman moved up- from the governorship of Veracruz to the Ministry of the Interior and to the presidential palace-his right-hand man moved right behind him. Will Ruiz Cortines be strong enough to go his own honest way now? His friends think so. He will continue Mexico's program of strenuous industrial expansion, they say, but with more orderly planning, "more austerity, more social justice, a more equitable distribution of wealth...
Glennon stressed the "practical" point that Kefauver is definitely running, and "running well," while Stevenson has reiterated that he will seek re-election to the governorship of Illinois. Of the candidates that presently exist, he's well above the rest, Glennon said, while the Stevenson campaign is like a "closed corporation with a minimum of stockholders...