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...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
Wendell Willkie himself snuffed out the smoldering effort to draft him as a candidate against Tom Dewey for the Republican nomination for New York's governorship. Said he: "I realize that [the draft leaders'] urgent demands that I become a candidate are manifestations of protest against a political situation in which they find their viewpoints completely unrepresented. ... I long ago declared that I did not intend to be a candidate and I have no intention of becoming one." Thus Willkie bowed out, yielded the nomination to Dewey...
Behind the scenes in New York the nation's political leaders were maneuvering -deliberately, delicately, dangerously -in perhaps the most significant political contest of the year. The only thing immediately at stake was the Governorship of New York, soon to be vacated by Four-Termer Herbert Lehman...
...tradition of Republicanism. His father, a veteran of the Civil War, was a Lincoln man. Mr. Murphy himself, born on a New England farm, bootstrapped himself up to become a millionaire shoe manufacturer (J. F. McElwain Co.). Murphy was one of the few Republicans elected to a governorship during the 1936 Democratic landslide, was an able Governor for four years. But he decided last week that he had had all the GOPery that he could stand...
After the 1940 election, Missouri Democrats tried to pull a fast one. They tried to steal the Governorship from duly elected Republican Forrest C. Donnell, hand it to barrel-chested Democrat Larry McDaniel (TIME, April 14, 1941). The men in the Legislature who worked hard to put the steal over, until the State Supreme Court seated Forrest Donnell, were St. Louis' 19 Democratic State Representatives. Last week, in the face of public and press condemnation, not one of them had yet dared announce that he would run for re-election in November...