Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governess Miriam A. Ferguson's prospects of escaping impeachment (TIME, Nov. 30, Dec. 7) brightened last week. To be sure one additional charge was leveled at her. The State Textbook Commission, of which she is chairman and of which her husband at her instigation was appointed clerk, recently made a contract for supplying all the spellers used in state schools for the next six years. The contract involves the greater part of $1,000,000. With four companies bidding, the contract was awarded to the highest bidder but against the advice of the Attorney General, who declared the contract...
...Fergusons stuck to their guns. Governess Ferguson announced positively that she would not call a special session of the legislature...
...Ferguson talked, with figures and statements supporting his argument beside him. He leaned back in his chair clasping his neck with his left hand. He has extraordinary charm. His language is rich and picturesque, his grammar all his own. 'A nigger-lipped sand-lapper,' was the description of one opponent. He described the unwillingness of politicians to leave office as, 'You cain't cut a feller offen his clabber.' His enemies, he said, 'ain't worth hating, nohow...
...Miriam A. Ferguson, Governor of this state, charged with enforcement of the law of the state, do hereby offer a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of any citizen of this state for violating the liquor laws who is worth, in property or money, as much...
Irving Colpak, Boston Latin School; Henry Harrington Cutler, St. Paul (Minn.) Academy; Charles Warner Duhig, Exeter; Philip Ives Dunne, Middlesex; George Ryder Faxon, Boston Latin School; Charles Foss Ferguson, Boston Latin School; Eugene Louis Fisher, Boston Latin School; James Bicheno Francis Chesnut Hill (Philadelphia) Academy; Joseph Bacon Fyffee, Hotchkiss; Robert Boit Gierasch, Middlesex; Jacob Goldberg, Boston Latin School; David Samuel Gruber, English High School; Leon Independence Gubin; Stuart Gordon Hardy, Exeter; Willis Gilpin Hazard, Roxbury Latin School...