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John Bricker qualifies under Rule 5: as Governor he has been a success. By contrast with his predecessor, Tree Surgeon Martin Davey, he has been spectacularly able. Natty, spatty Martin Davey left Ohio nearly bankrupt, with a $40,000,000 deficit and payrolls loaded with spoilsmen...
Bricker took office in 1939. He fired 3,000 Davey employes, cut the state payroll by $3,000,000, smashed the "legal rackets" that Davey's spoilsmen had enjoyed. He made good appointments. He became known, with reason, as Honest John Bricker. Within two years, he turned Ohio's $40,000,000 deficit into a $25,000,000 surplus...
Married. William Davey, stepson of Cyrus McCormick (reapers), son of Painter Randall Davey; and Roberta Storms Runyon of Chicago; each for the second time; in Santa...
...WILLIAM DAVEY...
...TIME rated Reader Davey's first novel, Dawn Breaks the Heart, a creditable Grade-B performance, had no political angle...