Word: governorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warren says that what finally determined him to try for the governorship was his utter inability to get along with Democratic Governor Culbert Olson. Many other Californians could not stomach New Dealing Governor Olson either, and Earl Warren shrewdly capitalized on this feeling. Running as a "nonpartisan" (he came surprisingly close to getting the Democratic nomination as well as the Republican), he stumped the length (1,000 miles) and breadth (200 miles) of the state, probably shook the hands of more Californians than has any other man alive...
Team Man. The end of the smooth-running Dickmann-Hannegan machine came in 1941, after Missouri Democrats had blundered into the colossal error of attempting to "steal" the governorship from Republican Forrest C. Donnell (TIME, March 23, 1942). Bob Hannegan's organizing talents did not lie idle long. Year later, Missouri Senators Clark and Truman boomed him for Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis...
Later his 19-year-old daughter sailed to Manila with her father, where a change of administration dropped him to the governorship of a small island, where he died. Josefina, then 20, took refuge with a Creole family in Manila. "There was one wholly exceptional young man in Manila, tall, blond, aquiline, blue-eyed, an American, a Protestant, and unmistakably virtuous." He was George Sturgis, 32. This marriage was for him extremely happy. But George Sturgis, after taking his family to Boston on the clipper ship Fearless, died in the midst of a commercial failure. same ship. Years later...
...pattern was repeated last week. Not even National Chairman Harrison Spangler had counted on bagging the Kentucky Governorship. This border-state triumph was the key to the whole trend: it demonstrated that Negroes are deserting the New Deal in droves, that public resentment against the "ins" is stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...