Word: stepoviches
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Most Alaskans assumed that as the territory passed into statehood, Governor (by presidential appointment) Mike Stepovich, 39, would stay (by election) right where he is, in Juneau's 30-room executive mansion. The assumption had impelling logic. Mike would run in place -a distinct advantage-and, if elected, could exert sweeping appointive powers to seed the new state offices with Republicans. But the new game of politics in an unborn state is not that logical...
Finally, Mike has been immobilized by the menace of E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, elected Democratic delegate to Congress for seven terms and widely regarded in Alaska as politically invincible. Bartlett was openly after the Stepovich scalp, and even while announcing for the U.S. Senate, vowed to change his mind the moment Mike declared for Governor. Under pressure of cooler heads, Bartlett reconsidered, reaffirmed his senatorial candidacy "without conditions of any kind...
This blazed a clear trail for Mike Stepovich. Last week he announced his candidacy for Term B. There he will oppose grey former Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening, a Democrat Mike Stepovich may be able to beat...
...referendum, Alaska will hold political primaries next month, elect two U.S. Senators, a U.S. Representative, a Governor and a secretary of state in November. Key job: the governorship, with great power under the new Alaska constitution, including that of some 200 pivotal appointments. Would G.O.P.-appointed Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) make the grade at the polls? He is popular enough even though Alaska is Democratic-minded. But if he fails, he can find comfort in his oft-repeated words of the past: "My hope is that I will be the last appointed Governor of Alaska...
...year-old Publisher Snedden, any less dramatic performance would have been an anticlimax to his arduous, four-year campaign to get Alaska into the Union. Not even Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) worked harder. Every fall he put out a special 144-page, four-color issue on the glories of Alaska, sent a copy to every member of Congress and to the editor of every U.S. paper with more than 50,000 circulation...