Word: ex-governor
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...When a Governor pardons a condemned criminal, it's sometimes news; when his chauffeur does, it's usually a crime. Last week a Fulton County (Atlanta) Grand Jury, in the process of asking questions about the pardons granted by ex-Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, stretched a long hand to Great Neck, N.Y., hauled in Albert Chandler, Negro chauffeur lately in Rivers' service...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...
Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...
...Reaper, ex-Governor of Texas, dies in a train for Monterrey, where his fiancée is waiting at the altar. Peter Bounty, sheriff, supervises detection en route, has a double murderer before arrival. Pretty good...
...years. Half a dozen of the 70 employes have been with the firm for more than 20 years. When the telephone girls answered "Miller, Owen, Otis & Bailly," it was with the knowledge that they were naming one of Manhattan's most distinguished firms. With New York's ex-Governor Miller as senior partner, with celebrated advocates spotted all through its long history, with a reputation for being big-minded and simple, the firm was at the opposite pole from Manhattan's huge, high-powered law factories...