Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsuccessful try for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President. Next year he actually won the New York mayoralty in a bloody election, only to see Tammany rig the count and cheat him out of his victory. In 1906, he was defeated by Charles Evans Hughes for the governorship of New York. In 1922, still nursing a political ambition that reached all the way to the White House, he made his last cast for office, began a campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York. Governor Al Smith, who had come to despise the great publisher, refused...
...campaign's listlessness was broken only by his primary opponent's attempt to show that, since Dr. Poling had run and lost for the governorship of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket back in 1912, he would be a bluenose mayor. Dr. Poling assured suspicious liquor dealers: "Your business is as legal as mine." He won the nomination handily...
...family had long been closely connected with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, with the deceased holding a governorship there...
...Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...