Word: revercombe
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Chapman Revercomb, 47, West Virginia, a young lawyer with liberal leanings and remarkable beginner's skill at politicking...
...crosses him. To Matt Neely, in & out of public office since 1908, defeat was bad enough; worse was the fact that it was administered by a handsome, young (47 years old) lawyer making his first political campaign, a Republican upstart with liberal leanings and a storybook name: Chapman Revercomb...
Reasons for his licking: 1) Kump followers, lusting for revenge, helped Revercomb; 2) C.I.O., which had always helped Matt Neely before, this year remained silent; many coal miners did not vote; 3) a Neely victory, West Virginians knew, would have left the State Governorless until a special election could be held. (West Virginia has no Lieutenant Governor; the State Senate president governs temporarily in the event of a vacancy...