Word: governorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett but meant for the ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth. . . . You are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the governorship. . . . There are no strings to this endorsement ... I do not believe in protest voting...
...Able, courageous, independent, he was a pre-Philadelphia booster for Wendell Willkie, supported President Roosevelt's foreign policy while thwacking the New Deal on domestic issues, proved his statesmanship and urbanity by his handling of the vexatious Japanese evacuation problem. Since he had to step out of the Governorship to run against Johnson, November's election will either raise Ralph Carr to new national prominence or throw him into temporary eclipse...
...began by getting himself elected Agricultural Commissioner, promptly fired everybody in the department, put his own men in. He pushed his way to the Governorship, got the right to hire & fire State officials at will and use State funds...
Governor Stassen moved fast. With one eye on the flag and the other on 1944, he announced that he would run again this autumn for the Governorship; that, if elected, he would resign in April to join the Navy. He then chose his friend, Ed Thye, to be the candidate for the key spot, the lieutenant-governorship...
...months on end the President had said little and that little sometimes snappishly. What would he want to say now, when Big Jim Farley had soundly, roundly trounced him in the struggle to nominate the Democratic candidate for the New York Governorship...