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Then he sat down to explain why he was abandoning all claim to the most powerful governorship in the U.S. at an age (48) when most politicos are just hitting their stride. First, his blood pressure was low from fatigue, and the bursitis in his right shoulder had reduced his usual eight-hour nightly sleep to two or three. Then there was money: after taxes on his $25,000 governor's salary, he had hardly enough to support the family and put his two sons (ages: 14 and 17) through college. He had been offered the presidency...
...Talmadge, then switched to elect Talmadge against Arnall's picked successor ("I wouldn't go along with him when he started registering all the niggers so I built up the picture for Gene"). When "Ol Gene" died, Roy engineered son Herman's attempt to snatch the governorship. He had gotten the poll tax repealed for Arnall; he got the white-supremacy primary passed for Herman...
Last week, Democrats had to admit that it would take more than the voice and the Roosevelt name to win the governorship in November. F.D.R.'s eldest son James emerged from California's primary as winner of the Democratic nomination all right, but even in the flush of victory he scarcely looked like a real threat to Republican Governor Earl Warren...
...Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
With Duff a pre-election favorite, the crucial fight was for the governorship with its control of 40,000 state jobs. Judge Fine, longtime boss of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), was heavily attacked by Grundymen who called him "a cardboard candidate," "Little Sir Echo," and a "political judge" who winked at gambling. Grundy set out a bait for undecided voters by backing retired Philadelphia Banker Jay Cooke, who insisted he was an independent. Duff met the challenge headon. "Cooke is no more independent of the old guard than the thumb on Grundy's right hand," snorted Duff. "I would...