Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rolling a 75-mm. howitzer over the Statehouse lawn, Rhode Island National Guard artillerymen positioned it for a 19-round inaugural salute to their new governor. Then, gun poised, the guardsmen waited, joining in the speculation that gripped the tiny state on New Year's Day: whether the salute when fired would honor Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 49, declared the winner by the board of elections (TIME, Dec. 31), or Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 53, who had suddenly challenged Del Sesto's narrow triumph in the State Supreme Court...
...Small Part." Behind the confusion lay not only the close election but a crazy quilt of law. When Rhode Island's 1,014 voting machines were opened election night, three-term Governor Roberts led by 207 votes. But when absentee ballots from servicemen, civilian travelers and shut-ins were counted two weeks after election, Republican Del Sesto took the lead. With a final tally of almost 390,000 votes counted, the board of elections declared Del Sesto the victor by 427. Unwilling to have the office pass out of Democratic hands after 16 years' continuous control, Roberts ignored...
...Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 79, would replace Georgia's retired Walter George as the Senate's president pro tempore; Montana's able Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, 53, was ready to step into the place of Kentucky's defeated Earle Clements as assistant majority leader; Rhode Island's ancient (89) Senator Theodore Francis Green would take over from Walter George as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Illinois' staunchly internationalist Thomas Gordon, 63, would move into the place of South Carolina's retired James P. Richards as head of the House Foreign...
...Sesto a Government accounting job in Washington, which Del Sesto used to finance his way through Georgetown University law school. After getting his degree, he returned to Providence, in 1941 became Governor (later U.S. Senator) J. Howard McGrath's finance director. When war came, he was appointed Rhode Island's price-control boss...
...decision in, Chris Del Sesto last week planned towards a double goal: molding a good administration and rebuilding Rhode Island's Republican Party. In the latter assignment he was receiving assistance from an unexpected quarter. Disheartened Denny Roberts took court action to have 5,602 tide-turning absentee and shut-in ballots disqualified. But a sizable number of Democrats were disgusted by his antics. Said one angrily: "Roberts has done to the party in minutes what the G.O.P has failed to do in years...