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...Philip Babcock Gove, editor in chief, Webster's Third New International Dictionary Litt.D...
...State College's President R. R. Renne seems to be in even deeper trouble. In January, the regents gave him a year's leave of absence to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. In April, Democrat Renne got a "return or resign" ultimatum from Governor Tim Babcock, a conservative Republican. Renne refused, but the regents are expected to fire him when he returns next year...
March Blowup. The resulting instability of the university and colleges creates constant turmoil. In March came a typical blowup when Morton Borden, associate professor of history, made a militant speech in Minnesota before the Farmers Union Central Exchange. Borden charged Governor Babcock with hostility to consumer cooperatives, adding: "Montana will remain a backwater of Birchism while the rest of the country progresses." Ordered to investigate, Newburn told the regents that Borden failed to "exercise appropriate restraint," but had a right to speak. The Governor advised Borden to leave Montana because "he scoffs at free enterprise and belittles the state that...
Endorsed by the Army Engineers. Knowles Dam is part of the huge development program for the Columbia River Basin. But Babcock argued that the dam, which would ,,back up a 40-mile lake, would flood 9,000 acres of irrigated land, harm Montana's forestry industry, submerge three towns and displace 1,284 persons...
...Declared Babcock: "Perhaps it is necessary for a state or a Governor to focus attention on our national need to reverse unnecessary federal spending. If such is the case, then Montana is proud to be that state, and I am proud to be that Governor...