Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alabama: The runoff primary for governor was a freakish contest. Outsize (6 ft. 8 in.) Jim Folsom, ex-G.I. endorsed by the C.I.O., mopped up professional politician L. Handy Ellis with the added help of sudsy showmanship (TIME, May 20) and a five-piece band. Big Jim, who swore he kissed 50,000 women in the campaign, polled heavily in back-country areas, and in these he had discreetly soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support...
...final runoff was offered to the fans, and grandstand opinion in the Northeast Corner contended that the Crimson would have benefited by it because of its superior baton handling. As it was, their time did not stack up to the 3:26 of NYU, and the four just had to content themselves with the show money...
...nearest opponent, two-time Governor Homer Adkins. This was not quite enough to give him a majority over all his four opponents. To win the Democratic nomination-and, with it, sure election-he still must beat the potent Adkins machine, perhaps reinforced by support from defeated candidates, in the runoff primary next week. But the political career of Hattie Caraway, who ran a bad fourth, was over...
With a New Deal supporter as opponent in the runoff, "Sure Mike" Conner would be certain of election. Against popular Tom Bailey, he is a not-so-sure-Mike. But if he wins, New Dealers can expect fireworks at the 1944 convention: Mike Conner was against Franklin Roosevelt as far back...
When Death, the prompter, as it must to all actors, called exit last week George M. Cohan did not have to wonder what his notices would be like: his career had been vividly reported to millions while he lived. Five months before death (of cancer) Cohan had seen a runoff of his own cinemapotheosis, Yankee Doodle Dandy (TIME, June 22), with James Cagney outdoodling the actor he portrayed. The picture turned the jauntiness and the flag-waving, the Cohan tunes and the Cohan tricks, into a nostalgic tintype of an era. No one typified that era more than Cohan himself...