Word: governorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kane's rich guardian (George Coulouris) whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom Kane broke after Kane's disastrous try for the Governorship of New York; Kane's butler (Paul Stewart). None knew the meaning of "rosebud." But each in his way understood a little of the man: he was not cruel, but he did cruel things; he was not generous, but he did generous things; he was willful, capricious...
...Appointed his old friend, Charles Harwood, 60, New York lawyer and onetime district judge in the Panama Canal Zone, to the Governorship of the Virgin Islands...
...Appointed round-faced, bespectacled ex-Congressman Guy Swope,* Pennsylvania's Democrat who had the backing of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, to the Governorship of troubled, depressed, strategic Puerto Rico...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...
Democratic President makers are Colonels House and Harvey. Publisher George Brinton McClellan Harvey, president of Harper & Bros., charmed by Wilson's phrasemaking, promoted the president of Princeton from wrangling with the college trustees to the Governorship of New Jersey. For this, Wilson, afraid Harvey's Wall Street connections might injure his role of reformer in the eyes of the masses, soon kicked his backer downstairs. President Maker House was a soft-footed, soft-voiced, soft-eyed Texan who finessed Wilson into the White House. Later Wilson broke with...