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...Democratic primary election is not until Aug. 3 of next year, so Acuff will have time to decide whether he wants to trade a reported $50,000 annual income for a $4,000-a-year Governorship. And Red Snapper Crump will have time to fish up another candidate. His present stooge in the Governorship, dull, nervous little Prentice Cooper, will be finishing a third term and ineligible for reelection. Smart Hillbilly Acuff, whose political ambitions may well hinge on their publicity value to him, said only "I know I'm a good fiddler-but I don't know...
...When I resigned the Governorship [of Minnesota] I announced that politics . . . were out for the duration...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was campaigning for New York's Governorship, he met a learned, self-effacing young lawyer. Sam Rosenman at once became useful to Candidate Roosevelt; he dug up facts for campaign speeches, modestly made many a sound suggestion. Governor Roosevelt made Rosenman his personal counsel, dubbed him "Sammy the Rose." In 1932 The Rose was appointed, then elected to a 14-year term on the New York Supreme Court bench. But for a decade he has remained a trusted Roosevelt adviser, shuttling back & forth-half the week in Washington, where a White House bed was always made...
Much more than the lieutenant-governorship is at stake. Closely tied up with the election are: 1) the prestige of Franklin Roosevelt and the Fourth Term movement; 2) the Presidential aspirations of Tom Dewey, front-runner in the race for the 1944 G.O.P. nomination...
...famed, fulminous Boxing Commission had a Negro member. He was handsome, 49-year-old Dr. Clilan Powell, X-ray expert, editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News, director of Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co. (owned and operated exclusively by Negroes). Governor Dewey, whom Powell backed for the governorship, made the appointment. Other Boxing Commission appointments have been political; so might this one be. More to the point was the special justness of giving the Commission a one-third Negro say: of pro pugs today, 70% are Negroes...