Word: lev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention Lev Saltonstall as "three-time governor of New England's largest state." You mean, of course, except for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. We don't have to be big, we New Englanders, to be important...
Plain Man, Plain Truths. Lev Saltonstall is no intellectual giant. He plods through his work. He spends too much time relaxing with his family and working in the field to get in much reading; and he takes much of his intellectual coloration from his college friends. Sometimes he goes out to Harvard to listen to the Keynesian big-spending economists. He returns wearied by such complexities. In office, he is slow to act. Many Democratic hacks are still on his payroll, and his own appointments have not been outstanding. Removals have usually been accomplished, not by sensational charges...
Truisms, caution, simplicity and all, Lev Saltonstall has given the Bay State six years of respectable government, after years of storm and scandal. In doing so, Blueblood Saltonstall has become the Republican Party's No. 1 asset in New England. Accordingly he has been mentioned as a Presidential possibility-but more often for the vice-presidency. An internationalist long before Pearl Harbor, Saltonstall was a Willkie man in 1940. Now he is cautiously neutral, and will go to the G.O.P. convention unpledged. He well knows that if either Willkie or Dewey-both New Yorkers-gets the nomination, they will...