Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biased against the G.O.P. - a kind of inversion of the old "one-party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...life on the public payroll and in the "organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting machinery, From this position, he could and did build a machine. By 1955 he was strong enough to buck Arvey and become chairman of the country organization. He achieved a rare position...
Initiating his campaign for the governorship, Volpe lashed out at Peabody's administration for "a wild spending orgy" without enough revenue to cover the costs. He charged that the Democrats have failed to meet the standards of efficient, responsive government...
Border-State Breathtaker. In Kentucky, Democrat Edward T. Breathitt, 38, won the governorship by a breathless 13,000 votes out of 880,000 cast. A protégé of outgoing Democratic Governor Bert Combs, Breathitt supported Combs's controversial, sweeping anti-discrimination executive order by promising to put civil rights before the state legislature. His Republican opponent, Louie B. Nunn, 39, called the order "dictatorial," vowed to rescind it. Breathitt's pluralities fell sharply in such forget-it-we're-Democrats places as western Kentucky's First Congressional District, the old Kentucky home...
...Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections, Quadros winning the presidency and Lacerda the Guanabara governorship. No sooner was Quadros in office, however, than Lacerda was at him again, ripping Quadros for his left-leaning foreign policy and accusing him of attempting to set up a dictatorship. Most Brazilians think that Lacerda's attacks led the erratic Quadros to resign after barely seven months in office...