Word: governorships
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...father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left him a few months after they were married...
...industrial North stood firm against it. Bushels of almost worthless Texas scrip held by Northern speculators had much to do with the change of sentiment which brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle of the Civil War was fought at Palmetto Ranch near Brownsville when a wandering detachment of Confederates overcame 800 Union troops more than a month after Appomattox, the State was almost unscratched...
...answer to the party's prayer. He is young, energetic, one of the world's best mixers and hasn't delved too deeply into Republican factional squabbles. There'll be a lot of talk about getting Landon into the race if he wins his governorship in November. . . . He is-or would be-a newcomer in national politics; and only heaven knows how badly the party wants a newcomer." So far as I have been able to learn, that was the first published piece suggesting Governor Landon's availability-a belief buttressed by receipt...
...with unsuppressed glee, and Roosevelt & Co. was putting its collective head together to dig up another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock to all but Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had known it "for some time," Herbert Lehman's firmly-worded refusal to run for the third time sprouted a crop of rumors. Some said...
...seized control of the organization by packing its board of directors; 3) Dr. Townsend's attorney, Sheridan Downey, EPIC candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1934, had weaned the gentle oldster away from his partner in order to further his own ambitions for California's governorship; 4) Dr. Townsend's clique, fearful lest the Congressional investigation disclose some shady Townsend financing, had ousted Secretary Clements in order to have a convenient scapegoat; 5) Dr. Townsend wanted a Townsend third party, while Secretary Clements did not; 6) Secretary Clements wanted a Townsend third party, while Dr. Townsend...