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Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...
...Connecticut, G.O.P. Representative John Davis Lodge '25 is trying to win the governorship away from Chester Bowles, Democrat James Roosevelt '30 is opposing incumbent Earl Warren in the California gubernatorial race...
...letter--" (if I lose) I have an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement whereby I will be given a job with the state." Lehman, the incumbent, soundly beat John Foster Dulles last year to win the Senate post and also won over Dewey in 1938, when the latter first tried for the governorship. In an uncertain year, Lehman's election is as definite as anything...
...sudden death of popular ex-Governor Ralph L. Carr meant more to Colorado Republicans than the loss of their best chance to take the governorship back from the Democrats. Until Candidate Carr died of a heart attack just after the primary election (TIME, Sept. 25), they had figured that his name on the ticket would also be enough to carry able, unspectacular Eugene Millikin into another term in the U.S. Senate. Slipping off to the home of a national committeeman in Colorado Springs last week, the state's Republican leaders settled down to look for a successor who could...
...elaborate Democratic plan to run all the balls off the table. The plan was largely based on the proposition that aging (74) Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley would head the Republican ticket. In such a situation New York's Democratic bosses had figured they could win the governorship with a nobody-particularly since they had gone to the trouble of arranging a mayoralty election in New York City to make sure of a big Democratic majority downstate.*Dewey's change of plans put the game onto a new table; New York had suddenly become a major political battleground...