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Also included were foppish, swaggering Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin), who was as bitterly anti-Russian as his namesake; General Konstantin Voiculescu, ex-Governor of Bessarabia, who was given to hanging rebellious peasants or drowning them in their wells...
Eugene Talmadge, tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway...
...Committee skillfully frisked the records of Franklin Roosevelt's two appointees to the Surplus Property Board, only to come up emptyhanded. There was no skulduggery, the Senators agreed, in the business dealings of thin, sharp-nosed Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, or of Connecticut's moon-faced ex-Governor. Robert A. Hurley. From this standpoint, both were qualified for the big job of disposing of an estimated total of $75,000,000,000 in surplus U.S. war property...
...routine fashion, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate the names of two appointees to the new Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...
Nutmeg State. For the second time in a gubernatorial election, Connecticut's able, internationalist G.O.P. Governor Raymond Baldwin took the measure of the Democrats' New Dealing, ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley...