Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of the freshman Senators had been governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, a rasping preacher of regular Republicanism, was one of the seven. Conservative Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor had been a vigorous two-term governor of Maryland; conservative Spessard L. Holland was a former Florida governor. The G.O.P.'s liberal wing added popular ex-governors Ray Baldwin of Connecticut and Ed Thye of Minnesota...
...there were still plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration...
...mental hospitals last week came from no muckraker but from a speaker before the sober, conservative National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Mental health officials, gathered in Manhattan at the committee's annual meeting, agreed with this indictment by Mrs. Edith M. Stern, a writer on psychiatric problems. Cried Maryland's Mental Hygiene Commissioner George...
...Maryland. Two-term Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor, who gave Senator George L. Radcliffe a sound beating in the Democratic primary, has a smooth-working machine, well-greased by patronage for this election. Governor O'Conor strums an anti-Russia serenade for Baltimore's big Catholic vote. His Republican opponent, Colonel David John Markey, a poor campaigner himself, will get much-needed help from Baltimore's popular Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin, now running for Governor. Best bet as of last week: O'Conor...
...sleepy-voiced Arch McDonald has been announcing baseball for 15 years, is so well known around Washington that he easily won the Democratic nomination for Congress (from Maryland) last June. His partner will be James Joseph ("Jimmy") Britt, a hustling 36-year-old who announces all Boston Red Sox and Braves home games in a fluid but spicy manner. Fans consider Arch and Jimmy among the best in the business, but they still like to hear the Corum drawl...