Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governors, California's Pat Brown now looms as the most important politically-because of his impressive record, his state's growing importance and the large number of delegates he will control. Once he seemed flattered to be discussed as a favorite son: now he not only takes seriously some talk of a vice-presidential nomination but listens to speculation about a presidential lightning bolt. And like most of the other seven Catholic Democratic Governors, Pat Brown has no interest at all in advancing the candidacy of front-running Catholic Jack Kennedy, since obviously two Catholics do not make...
With New York in Republican hands, it is California's Brown, Pennsylvania's Lawrence, New Jersey's Meyner, Michigan's Williams and the other big-delegation state leaders who can do much to set the trend at the start of the Los Angeles convention. And in the floor fighting that follows, they and their favorite sons could become the most sought-after Democratic Governors in many a convention year...
...evolved a system of having the boys dine at his place every other night; on alternate evenings he sat with the children and their nurse while they ate at Gracie Square. All this Gloria permitted-until Stoky demanded longer summer visits and permission to take them out of the state. She refused. He sued. She countersued...
...exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed down the stiffest sentences possible-considering that the jury had recommended mercy (TIME, June 22): life terms in Raiford State Prison. He was sorry, said Judge Walker, father of two sons, aged 11 and 15, to send any young men off to the penitentiary. But "duty transcends regret, and you are fortunate indeed that the jury recommended mercy." Had it not, death sentences would have been mandatory...
Succession. Briskly, Attorney Sims intoned the contents of five official letters, worked out only moments before in a back-room huddle with the state board of hospital supervisors. One pair of letters, signed by the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the state senate president pro tern, announced the discharge of Jesse Bankston, director of state hospitals, and Dr. Charles Belcher, acting director of Southeast Louisiana Hospital, where Earl Long had been committed by his wife Blanche (who by now had fled the state). The second pair of letters announced Long's appointment of two of his oldtime cronies...