Word: lether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long up to? Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
...from succeeding himself in the big white Governor's mansion built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...