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Died. James Rudolph Garfield, 84, second son of assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield, member of the "tennis cabinet" and Secretary of the Interior (1907-09) under Theodore Roosevelt, "Bull Moose" Party candidate for the Ohio governorship in 1914; in Cleveland...
Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "All the King's Men" is the story of Willie Stark in his rise to state governorship. It is a picture with a delayed-action moral, and that is the source of the film's greatness. You don't realize you have been listening to an earnest damning of present day politics until you can unglue your eyes from the screen and start thinking...
Baited Harmony. For months there had been more private talk and public acrimony than Pennsylvania had heard for years. Not even the staunchest Grundyman believed there was much chance of defeating Duff as the senatorial nominee. Instead, Grundy forces concentrated their fire on the governorship, which carries with it -the most potent patronage-disposal of 40,000 state jobs. They produced a "harmony candidate"-Colonel Jay Cooke, a retired Philadelphia investment banker and a Purple Heart veteran of both world wars. Cooke was not a completely orthodox Grundyite; he had been one of Harold Stassen...
Time for Politics. Charles Sawyer, busy making money, nevertheless had not forgotten politics. In 1930 he was defeated for Congress. In 1932 he was elected lieutenant governor, and two years later he filed for the governorship, but he was licked in the primaries by Tree Surgeon Martin L. Davey, a college friend. In 1938 he beat Davey in a bitter primary campaign, but lost to Republican John Bricker...
...Republican upsurge of 1946, Congresswoman Douglas herself was beaten. Douglas made up his mind to go after the governorship, an idea that struck horror into the ranks of the regulars. They had seen enough of Douglas' drawing power even in the 1942 campaign to know that he would be a strong candidate and they desperately needed one. But the thought of state patronage in the hands of a man who didn't appreciate the delicate and desperate needs of party men sent chills up every right-thinking wardheeler's spine. After weeks of haggling indecision, Cook County...