Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated from Washington and Lee University and Harvard Law School, was a World War II submarine officer. As a Roanoke attorney, he organized almost singlehanded the G.O.P. in Virginia, even though he was defeated twice for the house of delegates and in his first try for the governorship...
...forceful personage to pull it off. Already Connally has begun attacking Democratic Presidential hopefuls, and Nixon has hinted at his new strategy (according to the Democrats, at least) by ordering a Federal grand-jury inquiry into George Wallace's campaign finances for his recent bid for Alabama's governorship...
...prefectures (states) throughout Japan-pollution has emerged as the capital's No. 1 issue. Socialist Governor Ryokichi Mi-nobe, 67, a scholarly, soft-spoken former economics professor, is pinning his hopes for re-election on the slogan: "Give Tokyo back its blue sky!" His opponent for the governorship (the equivalent of a U.S. mayoralty) is former Police Chief Akira Hatano, 59, a first-time campaigner, hand-picked by Premier Eisaku Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party. Hatano joined the fray with a promise from Sato that if he wins, the federal government will put up 4 trillion...
Georgia's constitution bars the state's Governor from succeeding himself, so it was time last week for headline-happy Lester Maddox to leave the $3,000,000 Governor's mansion he built, step down to the lieutenant governorship and garner some finger-lickin' sweet publicity in the process. He invited folks to drop in and say goodbye-and 5,000 of them came. He dramatized the fact that the Lieutenant Governor is not provided with a car by riding his bicycle seven miles to the state capitol. And he announced some plans for augmenting...
...Strategy was certainly confirmed. Any movement by the Republican Party, they warn, "toward a Southern Strategy, capitalizing on antiblack feelings, toward capturing the Wallace vote to build an emerging Republican majority," would backfire-an apt description of the Republican midterm foray into the South. Of the sixteen races for Governorship and the Senate in the Southern and Border States, the Republicans...