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Four years later the reign ebbed. Last week, after a quarter of a century in which he dominated every move of the world's greatest banking institution, Montagu Collet Norman, 73, resigned the Governorship of the Bank of England, and prepared to go into permanent retirement...
...General Court). For 16 years he was a representative; for the last eight years speaker, a record unexcelled in the Bay State since 1802. He spent much of that time trying to stop the budget extravagances of ambitious Democratic governors. Then, in 1938, Republican Saltonstall won the governorship from tempestuous Democrat James Michael Curley. Some said that the unpopular Curley beat himself, but Saltonstall was re-elected in 1940, although the Democrats that year carried the state for Franklin Roosevelt by 137,000 votes. And since his re-election to a third term in 1942, Lev Saltonstall has been governor...
...scramble for the gubernatorial chair of John Bricker, Ohio Republicans last week forgot to keep up appearances. The Alphonse-&-Gaston tradition of Party unity, which has won the Governorship for Republicans in the last three elections, had come apart at the seams...
...government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
...party's moneybags, Manufacturer Joe Grundy and Oilman Joe Pew, have a long-standing distaste for Puddler Jim. Only two years ago, 6-ft. Soldier Edward Martin and Puddler Jim were exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced with fighting alone, had wandered far astray, looking for votes and support; to Old Guard horror, he had even been making cooing noises at Wendell...