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...sharpened by the fact that there were 81 different elective offices at stake-in the state legislature (25 in the senate, 51 in the house), in the U.S. Congress (two in the Senate, one in the House), and in the posts of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Biggest prize: the governorship, since Hawaii's chief executive will control no fewer than 750 job appointments, and in this way affect Hawaii's political posture for years to come...
...lightning struck. Determined to exchange Sam King's standpat Republicanism for some of his own kind, President Eisenhower sent for Quinn, offered him the governorship. The young lawyer confessed his inexperience. Said Ike: "You are a fine, clean-cut young man. Now you do your best, and that will be the best thing for America...
...conclusion: eventually the capitalists will all end up in museums. "We will look at them as today we look at the remains of prehistoric monsters and say, 'Look, that was a capitalist!'" Recently, he added, he had been visited by Averell Harriman, who was defeated for the governorship of New York by a Rockefeller. "What is the difference to the workers," said Khrushchev, "between a Rockefeller and a Harriman...
...announced that he would not run for a third term in '56, Governor Herter got a call from John Foster Dulles. Would Herter be willing to come to Washington and work under Dulles as Under Secretary? Eager to get back into his chosen field after the long governorship detour, Herter gladly said...
...commonwealth" status to the Caribbean island taken by the United States in the Spanish-American War. In 1950, by maintaining a middle course between the Republicanos who wanted statehood, and the Independistas who wanted complete separation from the United States, Munoz was instrumental in the creation of an elective governorship, which gave the islanders both the political protection of the United States and continued freedom from federal taxes...