Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, the Craig forces had to let a toll-road restriction bill pass the senate. But it was watered down to a thinness almost acceptable to the Craig administration. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, the key Jenner lieutenant, complaining that his forces should have been rougher in the fight, cracked: "But, you know how it is; there are always a few boys who don't really know the score, and so they want to be fair...
Faithful Judy B. In the house the situation was somewhat different: the speaker, George Diener, is a Craig man. He promptly assigned the bill to committee, but not to the Roads Committee. It went to the Judiciary B Committee, known around the Statehouse as "Judy B." Why assign the bill to Judy B ? Said Craig Floor Leader John Feighner: "This is more than a road problem. There are a lot of legal problems involved. And there are some clear-thinking men on that committee." Hardly anyone in the Statehouse missed the point: the Roads Committee was evenly divided between Craig...
...clear majority wholeheartedly agreed that it was a very bad bill, but they just could not figure out how to amend it. A motion on the floor of the house to "blast" the bill out of committee and place it before the whole membership failed by one vote. The Craig forces were winning the fight by suffocation...
...Know How It Tastes." While his men executed the maneuvers in the legislature, George Craig was in the thick of the fight behind the scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan...
...basis of knowledge he picked up on Sunday walks with his father, George Craig figures that he is one of the few governors in the U.S. who can identify edible mushrooms. ("The spring kind's the best-morels. Sponge type, brown on top.") He has another bit of information that probably is unique among U.S. governors. One day, hunting with schoolmates, he reached into a rabbit hole, pulled out an animal. He found himself holding an angry skunk in front of his face. Says Craig: "I know how it tastes-kinda sweet; I know how it feels in your...