Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state. In one of the nation's most flamboyant and free-spending races, Democrat Milton J. Shapp, 53, and Republican Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, 49, by the morning of Nov. 8 will have lavished at least $3,600,000 on the cashkrieg campaign for the governorship...
...Sale. The candidates have devoted most of their energies to name-calling. Shapp charges that Shafer is a "Goldwaterite" and "against everything that benefits the public." Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy." Shapp claims that Shafer "already has pawned the governorship" to "fat-cat hidden bosses." Shafer says that Shapp is out to buy the state, passes out buttons showing a NOT FOR SALE sign plastered across a photo of the statehouse...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats will manage Edward J. McCormack Jr.'s campaign for the Massachusetts governorship in the western half of Cambridge...
Though he insists that the governorship is his only goal, a victory for Reagan will inevitably catapult him onto the national scene as the G.O.P.'s Lochinvar from the West. His name is certain to crop up in connection with the party's vice presidential and even presidential nominations in 1968 and 1972. In any event, as Governor of California, in control of a pivotal delegation at the G.O.P. convention, he will be a major influence in selecting whichever candidate the party chooses...
...Republicans. But the course of the state party conventions reduced them to absurdity: while the Republican, Liberal, and Conservative conventions went docilely through the motions of nominating the unpopular and unknown candidates their party bosses had long since chosen, the Democrats got into a real fight over the Lieutenant-Governorship. They ended up nominating the genuinely attractive Howard Samuels, who was the original choice of none of the "bosses." The surprising nomination of Samuels has made every subsequent charge of Democratic bossism ring increasingly hollow...