Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...states, just as some states collect income taxes and refund part to local governments. Yet state tax officials are inclined to oppose such a scheme be cause it would give the Federal Government still more power over them. Other Topics last week on the minds of Governors and Governors-elect included...
...James V. Allred, who takes command of the biggest State in the Union, is only 35, youngest of the 34 Governors to be inaugurated next month - younger than 37-year-old Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, younger than 38-year-old Olin Johnston of South Carolina. Last week Governor-elect Allred was in Washington trying to find out how much money Texas would have to raise for relief on top of its expected $14,000,000 deficit...
...Senator-elect Guffey's men took one vote which pledged their 23 votes to Candidate Byrns. Beaming, "Joe" Byrns went into their caucus to thank them. "This," he asserted, "absolutely assures my election...
...words signaled a free track ahead for the Speakership race. Boss Joseph F (for nothing) Guffey of Pennsylvania presently turned up in Washington and called on Vice President Garner for the unconventional purpose of presenting his own credentials as Senator-elect from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Guffey did not go to Washington alone. He took with him his political manager, David L. Lawrence, and the whole House delegation of 23 Democrats elected from Pennsylvania last month...
Famed among oil companies for financial stability, Gulf's capital stock consists of 4,538,000 shares, of which 90% are owned by the House of Mellon. The Mellons started Gulf Oil in 1901 with Pennsylvania's James Guffey, uncle of U. S. Senator-elect Joseph Guffey. It was then called the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. Guffey Petroleum went into the red when its wells in the fabulous Texas Spindletop field turned to water. By 1913 the Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year...