Word: craige
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since early January, Indiana's Governor George North Craig and the followers of Indiana's U.S Senator William Ezra Jenner have been locked in a furious battle in the state's General Assembly (TIME, March 7). Feuding bitterly over control of the Hoosier G.O.P., the Craig and Jenner factions concentrated this year on the issue of toll roads. Jenner forces tried to push through a bill to hamstring toll-road construction, thereby hamstringing the governor's political power and patronage. Last week, after stopping its clocks and stalling for 28 hours and 11 minutes beyond...
Ticking Minutes. In the state house of representatives, a Craig-controlled committee effectively smothered the Jenner forces' road-blocking bill. Thwarted there, the Jenner men made a last stand in the state senate by tacking an amendment onto the budget bill to prohibit the use of state funds for any toll-road purpose. When the budget got to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Craig announced that he would refuse to sign a budget bill that included the amendment. Instead, he would let the assembly adjourn, then immediately call it into special session and present a new budget bill...
...issue an ultimatum of his own. He had an antique mantel clock placed on his desk at the front of the senate chamber and announced that he was going to end the session exactly at midnight on the 61st day. If no budget bill had been passed and the Craig administration had no money, that would be just...
Across the State Capitol rotunda, in the house of representatives, Speaker George Diener, a Craig man, was ready with some tricks of his own. He was holding several passed bills that would not become law unless he signed them before the assembly adjourned. If Handley adjourned the senate at midnight, before the budget battle was settled, the Diener-held bills (including a politically potent bonus for Korean war veterans) would be void...
Died. William C. de Mille. 76. veteran playwright (Strongheart, The Warrens of Virginia) and motion picture director (Craig's Wife, Passion Flower), onetime (1941-53) head of the University of Southern California's drama department, brother of Producer-Director Cecil B. De-Mille and father of Choreographer Agnes de Mille; in Playa del Rey. Calif...