Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Long continued to agitate Texas from afar. One night last week a great rally of 7,000 cotton farmers was held in Austin's Wooldridge Park. Governor Long had planned to attend but at the last minute decided not to, lest Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his bitter political foe, seize the Louisiana Government in his absence and unmake the Long machine. The Governor's 12-year-old son Russell went to the Texas capital in his place, explaining that: "Papa couldn't leave because he was afraid Lieut. Governor Cyr might make a mess." From slangy William Kennon Henderson...
...skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...
Died. Dr. John Dill Robertson, 60, for seven years Chicago's health commissioner under Mayor William Hale Thompson and later his bitter foe in the 1927 mayoralty election; of angina pectoris; at Fontana...
...Corp. ($35,000,000), centring in Cedar Rapids, selling electricity to central Iowa cities, operating a Cedar Rapids trolley system, an interurban line to Iowa City and a statewide bus line. Iowa Railway & Light is, as yet, nowhere in competition with Vice President Reed's brother's foe's Cities Service...
Pinchot Patching. Meanwhile, what was Governor Gifford Pinchot, outspoken foe of "the interests," doing? With a sly dig at his predecessor, John S. Fisher, said he: "I recognize the terrible condi- tions in the mining district. They were bad when I was in office before [1923-27], I arbitrated the anthracite strike and conditions were improved there. After I went out of office, conditions got worse. ... I have no power over the judges and the injunctions they grant [against picketing]. I have no power to prevent evictions [of miners from company-owned houses]. I have no power to stop...