Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department by department the Commonwealth's government is being run by patronage," Dumaine stated. He countered the charge that the Crime Commission is the "political vendetta of the Republican Party," calling it a necessary organ for maintaining "some morality" in the governorship...
...this interest in publishing seems inspired by something other than the ambition to add a mite to the measure of the U.S. press. Of the three men, only Greenspun can claim any newspaper experience. But all three are disappointed politicians. Republican Hank Greenspun took a flyer at the governorship of Nevada in 1962 and was ignominiously shot down in flames. In 1948 and again in 1950, Cattleman Smith unsuccessfully sought the nomination as Democratic candidate for Arizona Governor-and in neither case did he get any help from Phoenix's two Republican papers. Last year Mecham, running against Arizona...
Standing in almost pitiable solitude against Bobby's forces was Governor Wallace, 43, a former state judge and sometime amateur boxer, now grown a bit pudgy. During his raucous campaign for the governorship last year, Wallace vowed that he would oppose any federal school-integration order "to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door," defying the feds to arrest...
...city jobs. In 1950, making his first try for public office, Freeman ran for state attorney general and lost. In 1952 he ran for Governor and lost again. But in 1954 the kite was flying high. Humphrey, running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, carried Freeman into the governorship. Once in, Freeman won re-election...
After 4½ months of counts and recounts, a panel of three district court judges last week picked a winner in the race for Minnesota's governorship. Their decision: Democrat Karl Rolvaag over incumbent Elmer L. Andersen by a bare 91 votes out of 1,239,593 cast-Republican Andersen decided against a last-ditch appeal to the state Supreme Court, thereby ending one of the longest delays in U.S. history in deciding a gubernatorial contest...