Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut. In a Republican year in a normally Republican state, a Republican governor should have little trouble getting reelected. The news from Connecticut was that Governor James C. Shannon, who succeeded to the office last March on the death of Governor James L. McConaughy, was getting a run for his money. The man who was doing it was ex-OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, who was crisscrossing the state, dropping in at the county fairs (sometimes joining in the softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal...
Tomorrow Will Be Better is the story of Margy Shannon of Maujer Street, the plainly dressed, neatly combed daughter of a factory worker, of her loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...
...Sister. Part of the reason is that the reader knows so much about Margy Shannon. What he learns of her is not what he ordinarily learns of the heroine of a romance, but the sort of information (with a few additions) one has about one's sister. The experience is less like reading a novel than it is like living in the same house with the girl. If she were not a nice girl to have around, the book would be intolerable. She is delightful, not in the sense of being winsome or charming, but in the sense...
...Connecticut, Chester Bowles, sometime eager-beaver OPAdministrator, was picked by Democratic leaders to run for governor, an opportunity he sought in vain two years ago. His November opponent : Governor James C. Shannon, who succeeded the late Governor James L. McConaughy last March...
...blitz continued to work right on the floor. It manifested itself in a hundred hurried, private conferences-New Jersey's Driscoll arguing with Delegate Horace Tantum, Charlie Halleck bending an ear to Kansas Chairman Harry Darby, Ed Jaeckle giving friendly advice to Connecticut's Governor James C. Shannon (see cuts...