Word: davey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief muddles- in Massachusetts, Georgia, North Dakota, Oklahoma-before the political Opposition could start fulminating. Last week, on "evidence concerning corrupt political interference with relief in the State of Ohio," the President again beat scandalmongers to the gun by ordering FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins to remove Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey from all connection with Federal Relief Administration...
...Hopkins carried out his chief's will by writing Governor Davey the sternest letter that has come out of Washington in years. "It has come to the attention of this Administration by incontrovertible evidence," said he, "that your campaign committee, shortly, after your election, proceeded to solicit money from the men and business firms who sold goods to the Ohio Relief Administration. The frank purpose of this shakedown, because it can be termed fairly by no other name, was to help pay off the deficit of your campaign and the expenses of your inaugural." Specifically, the evidence which...
...condemning the "political chicanery" of Ohio's relief regime, President Roosevelt was making few enemies among the Buckeye State's regular Democrats. For Martin Davey, who turned his father's experiments in tree surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with...
...second chukker opened with Tommy Davis scoring again for the Crimson and a fast shot by Davey, Princeton No. 2, to add to the excitement of the ding dong scoring. Harvard's galloping No. 1 then scored, and the number on the score board again went up under the Harvard plate with a backhander by Davis to end the half 4-3 with Harvard on the long end of the scoring...
Dillingham 2, Kemmerer 2, Davis 3, Sullivan, Davey 3, McGuckin...