Word: davey
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With the football season in full swing (see p. 53), Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey last week managed to catapult himself into the headlines by contributing a few notes on how footballers are financially coddled at Ohio State University. The Tree-Surgeon Governor was not concerned with the purification of Amateur Sport. His prime purpose was to embarrass politically the University, of which he is no alumnus...
Since last spring Governor Davey has been wrangling with Ohio State's President George Washington Rightmire over the size of the University's legislative appropriation. The Governor had lopped off $1,266,500 and last week it looked as if it might take months to get any of it restored...
Although well calculated to arouse alumni, who with reason hope to see Ohio State win the Big Ten championship, this clarification of issues gave Governor Davey his opening. He disposed of the coal crisis quickly: "On Oct. 8 the unencumbered balances of the University amounted to $1,023,172.26. Why are they unwilling to transfer some of this surplus to necessary items of maintenance?" Warming up, he continued: "As far as the football season is concerned, we are all extremely interested in its success. We recognize the fact that football has become the supreme purpose of higher education. We have...
Footballers in colleges of the Western ("Big Ten'') Conference are allowed to nestle on State payrolls if they work for their salaries. Just how hard Ohio State athletes work for their stipends was debatable. Governor Davey followed up his blast with a pious assurance that all were usefully employed. But Ohioans recalled that after Ohio State's great Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, broke three world records, the House of Representatives quietly changed his status from page to honorary page at $3 per day in session...
Married, Evangeline Davey, only daughter of Ohio's Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith of Kent, Ohio; in the Governor's mansion at Columbus...