Word: kennon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with it all, there is a distinct dissimilarity between the performances of Earl and Huey as governors of Louisiana: what Huey wanted, Huey got; what Earl wants has begun to evade him with increasing frequency. Fortunately for Louisiana, Earl's predecessor, Governor Robert F. Kennon, led a successful campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel...
...announcement last week was taken seriously even outside Ohio by some Democrats, who see Lausche as a candidate around whom the party's more conservative members may be able to rally. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers and Louisiana's Governor Robert Kennon are among those who have spoken approvingly of Lausche as a possible candidate for President...
...provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser to Stevenson, said he would fight to keep out of the convention South Carolina's former Governor James F. Byrnes, Louisiana's Governor Robert Kennon, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers and former National Committeeman Wright Morrow. to these four, who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, Mitchell applied a Western philosophy: "If you want to know what a cowboy will do when he's drunk, then find out what he did the last...
...Louisiana's Democratic Governor Robert Kennon, casting about for candidates more to his liking than-Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a class with men like Senator Byrd, Governor Allan Shivers and former Governor James Byrnes...
...highest offices in the land as a Democrat, was satisfied to say that he may not take any par in any political convention in 1956. Texas' Governor Shivers, elected to three terms as a Democrat, answered with a loaded question: "Who's Mitchell?" Louisiana's Governor Kennon was hardly contrite: "Three hundred thousand Louisiana Democrats backed up my stand on Eisenhower. I think the feeling in Louisiana is that the national Democratic Party will control the national Government when the party returns to the principles of Jefferson. If it adopts another anti-Jeffersonian platform, I wouldn...