Word: governorships
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...Smith was a rotten Governor. I did not know it until I got into the governorship myself...
...harried judge of Common Pleas Court called it "a Mexican election." Outcome was a whopping victory for Arthur Harry Moore, 52, Democratic nominee for Governor. He was the third man in the State's long history to be twice elected Governor. He ran up the biggest majority for the governorship ever recorded there. Amassing 740,605 votes, he carried all but four of 21 counties. His Republican opponent, bald, chunky David Baird Jr.. onetime Senator (by appointment), polled 501,226 votes, despite the fact that Ambassador Walter Evans Edge came home from France to flap his elbows...
Kentucky. Circuit Judge Ruby Lafoon of Madisonville, old-line politician, whipped his Republican rival, Mayor William B. Harrison of Louisville, for the Governorship. Candidate Lafoon polled a 71,523 majority. At Bowling Green, election furor precipitated a shooting: a G. 0. P. worker named W. K. Dent sent five slugs in the general direction of one-time Lieutenant GovernorHenry H. Denhardt, Democrat. One bullet pierced Mr. Denhardt's lung. Worker Dent said a friend of Denhardt's had taken a shot at him the day before, that he was saved only by a pack of election cards in his pocket...
...Sir?This is to advise you that I have taken the oath of office as Governor of the State of Louisiana and have been inducted into office, and, under the Constitution of Louisiana, you have no further right to claim possession of the Governorship or exercise any functions thereof. I therefore demand of you that you immediately surrender the office, its archives, and all that appertains to said office and divest yourself of the appearance of chief executive of Louisiana...
...camera. Three hundred and fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along...