Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island. Persuaded to abandon this ambition, he took the stump in Pennsylvania, helped swing that State to the New Deal. In turn, rich New Dealers like Vincent Astor lent a hand in promoting Mr. Dowling's new $250,000 show. At its Philadelphia premiere, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor-elect Earle & friends were on hand to cheer their theatrical colleague. At the Manhattan opening, Postmaster General Farley and the young James Roosevelts represented the official family...
...fallen into the lethargy which he claims for it, the bald statement that any bungling of management can be excused on the grounds that it offers a welcome revival of enthusiasm, is an argument based on the most false hypothesis. Following such a credo, one might quite as justifiably elect a president or head coach and later renounce the choice so that interest in the election might be revived...
...Governor-elect Allred's program includes: laws to prevent lobbying; publicity on the sources of income of all State Legislators; new revenue without a sales...
Meantime the Governor-elect has an other problem, to make ready for the winding up of Nebraska's bicameral Legislature. An amendment to the State Constitution advocated by Senator Norris and adopted at the last election will do away with Nebraska's House and Senate, pre sent her in 1937 with one House of 30 to 50 members - the first unicameral Legislature in the U. S. since Vermont gave up hers...
...Governor-elect Fitzgerald had already been unfortunate. On Nov. 6 the voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending...