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...years of campaigning, hymn-singing, Bible-quoting Charles William Tobey had won more public offices-including the governorship and a seat in the U.S. Senate-than anyone in New Hampshire; he had never been beaten. Last week for the first time, aging (70) Senator Tobey was running hard. He was up against a hard-swinging, 35-year-old war veteran named S. Wesley Powell...
...compartment in Harry Truman's mind that has politics written on it was still clicking away, in the midst of other decisions. F.D.R.'s sallow, fast-talking son Jimmy visited the White House (see PEOPLE) to talk over his campaign for the California governorship, and bury the hatchet. He got the President's blessing ("Keep pitching...
...Marine Reserve (he was told that the leathernecks didn't need any Reserve colonels just yet), Jimmy Roosevelt, a leader of 1948's "Draft Eisenhower for President" campaign, popped in to see Harry Truman, who told him to "keep pitching" in his campaign for the governorship of California. Jimmy suggested that old Legionnaire Truman might like to come out for the American Legion Convention in Los Angeles this October. "I hope to see the President in California before the election," said Candidate Roosevelt, "and I know the President wants to attend...
Aging (71) Jimmy Byrnes, who stayed haughty and aloof during the primary, easily won the governorship. That solved one problem for friends of the ex-Senator, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-Secretary of State. Said he: "A lot of folks . . . have been telling me they had a hell of a time figuring out what to call me. But now they can call me governor...
With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...