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Poppa Is All. Pennsylvania's governor-elect is a 6-ft, seventh-generation Pennsylvania Dutchman whose ancestors have been prosperous landowners and farmers in York County since the days of William Penn. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, Frederick Leader, was in the first contingent of troops from west of the Hudson to join George Washington's Continental Army. George Michael, the third of seven children, was born on the nourishing farm of his father, Guy Leader, three miles south of York. As with most Pennsylvania Dutch families, Patriarch Guy dominated the family circle, and George still...
...governor-elect reads history for relaxation, has no hobbies, and keeps his slim figure (6 ft., 164 lbs.) without resorting to athletics. He smokes big black cigars, and rarely drinks. (On election night in Harrisburg, while other Democrats were whooping it up, the candidate did not even indulge in a victory toast...
STATE and local political organizations generally work harder to elect a governor than a Congressman, and for good reason. A governor can dispense far more patronage, let more contracts and do more favors than can any U.S. Congressman or Senator, a fact that leads to the philosophy: "Protect the barn-the hell with the com fields." In last week's elections the Democratic Party did much better than the G.O.P in protecting the barn. The Democrats elected governors in seven states that had been controlled by the G.O.P.: Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (they...
...morning after Cuba's presidential election last week, Fulgencio Batista told his followers: "From the results so far, it appears that I am the President-elect." It was a modest enough statement for a dictator who controlled the electoral machinery and whose only competitor in the race, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, had withdrawn before the election (TIME...
Place of Resort. Though the big boom is recent. Americans have always been self-improvers. In the 1830s they flocked to Lyceums; later, they went to the Chautauqua: still later, they attacked the five-foot shelf. Meanwhile, the professional educators took on the adult population themselves. In 1890 President-elect William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago proclaimed it the duty of every university to "provide instruction for those who, for social or economic reasons, cannot attend its classrooms." In 1904, the New York City Department of Education declared the school to be not only "a nursery for children...