Word: hardman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats away, grinned broadly. Nelson Rockefeller, second of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., has spent about ten years in Government-most of them in little-publicized hard work. He was Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs...
...place last week. Over the bar of the State Street saloon, where Albany politicians hang out, now flows Genesee beer, made by Louis Wehle, New York's newly appointed conservation commissioner. Yezzi's was turning with the political wind: after twelve years of Republican rule, Averell Hardman, millionaire Democrat, was inaugurated as governor of New York, the nation's second biggest political...