Word: governorships
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...messenger boy." A Democratic ticket more comic than formidable is: William McNair, Mayor of Pittsburgh, for Governor; pugilistic Eddie McCloskey, Mayor of Johnstown, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator...
...years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...going to give him "a look-over,'' was sure that they would "get along." "That's me all the time. I'm the little girl who made good. Always got an ace in the hole. And maybe the next time I come here after the governorship I'll have my aces back to back...
...announcement that Nichols will join Mayor Russell, recently reelected for his third term as Mayor of Cambridge, is regarded by many political observers as the first step in Russell's campaign for the governorship of Massachusetts. During the recent mayoralty campaign Nichols managed Russell's candidacy and was influential in effecting the latter's election against a united front of three opponents. Russell, it is well known, has his eye on the governor's chair, which was once held by his father, Governor William E. Russell...
...hand, Mr. Curry has snared him into tacit support of Dr. O'Brien; on the other, Mr. Schurman is peppering him as a black deceiver, not to be endured in any of his works and pomps, uninterested in good government or indeed in anything but the governorship. What assault he will suffer at the hands of his real victim, Mr. LaGuardia, remains to be seen, but it is clear that he cannot but emerge from the New York campaign as that most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect...