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...gifted hamming has taken him a long way. Eight years ago he was a high-school history teacher. Last week, at 37, after a year and a half as the efficient mayor of the booming city of São Paulo, he won the governorship election...
...chief reasons for Democratic optimism in the coming national elections is the strength the party is showing in the race for the Governorship of New York. Until this year, the Democrats have lost four of the last five state-wide elections in the Empire State, by margins ranging up to a million. But the straw poll of the New York Daily News, which has never been wrong, indicates a victory for Democrat Averell-Harriman over Republican Irving Ives by a quarter-million votes. And the Daily News is supporting Ives...
...Republican chance to keep the Governorship depends upon the success of the formula that has brought them victory over the last twelve years. The formula, which shows a keen insight into the New York electorate, is compounded of two elements: ethnic and economic. New York has a mature, industrial economy (ninety percent of its citizens live in or around cities). Having accepted state socialism since 1910, New York voters expect their parties to offer the full bundle of social welfare programs. By matching the Democrats hospital for hospital and school for school, the Republicans have tried to criminate economics...
...hand-picked president of the Vargas-created Labor Party, Joao Goulart, was a poor third in his Senate race; the Labor Party candidate for governor was running second. And in the state of Pernambuco, Vargas' former Agriculture Minister, João Cleofas, was trailing for the governorship...
Petty Principalities. The push began when burly Republican Lawyer George North Craig was campaigning for the governorship in 1952 and pledged himself to reform the state's mental institutions. When he took office, Craig found them in chaos. There were ten mental hospitals, each run as a petty principality by an autonomous board of trustees. Craig got the legislature to put all state hospitals under centralized control and to vote an extra $4,400,000 (a 21% increase) for running them the first year, and $6,700,00 the next. Then the real work began...