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Heir to a family textiles fortune in Providence, Green went to Brown University, Harvard Law School, the Universities of Berlin and Bonn. He taught Roman law at Brown, also began working at Rhode Island Democratic politics. Elected Governor in 1933, he swept clean with a stiff broom: in a single day, he ousted five Supreme Court justices, abolished the office of finance commissioner, consolidated 80 administrative offices...
...trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares favorably with any in the world...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...
...player for U.C.L.A., won election at the head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years, boasted that "my full term healed Ecuador." Successor José Maria Velasco Ibarra also served out his term...
...after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made president of Tidewater in May 1958 and shook up management. "The new broom," he grins, "sweeps clean...