Word: governorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at 34, Joe Foss made up his mind. "Just say I'll be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the governorship in the 1950 primary," he told a newsman. Since Republican Governor George T. Mickelson could not, by law, succeed himself, Joe Foss obviously thought his political skies were CAVU-ceiling and visibility unlimited...
...beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably...
...Beaton twice for governor, in 1924 by Alvin T. Fuller and in 193 8by Leverett Saltonstall, he was in the State House for only one term, 1934-6; and those were the years of Roosevelt's first term when no democrat could lose. In the last year of his governorship, he ran for the Senate against Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and lost even though it was the first time Lodge had ron for political office...
...Rosary societies. Parish priests were briefed. In all, the church expected to distribute close to 250,000 copies. But most Jersey political observers thought that, even with the church's help, Wene would have to make more gains before he could cry "bingo" and walk off with the governorship as his prize...
...Mennen Williams, who beat out Republican incumbent Kim Sigler last year for the governorship of Michigan, got powerful support from organized labor in his drive for election...