Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other three reports, the committee also touched on some broader aspects of crime in the U.S. It gave the back of its hand to Florida's Governor Fuller Warren (whose name "cropped up frequently in questionable connections"), and suggested-although in markedly milder terms than in earlier attacks-that William O'Dwyer had not always kept the best of company during his years as mayor of New York. The Senators urged a federal law legalizing wiretapping, and a privately financed national crime council for coordination of the fight against corruption and gangsterism on the local level...
Last week on Capitol Hill: ¶The Senate Crime Committee gave up trying to quiz Florida's Governor Fuller Warren on what he knows about crime and gambling in his state (TIME, July 16). The committee's rules are that all testimony be taken under oath; Warren has refused to testify under oath. The committee reluctantly concluded that it could not ordera governor around. ¶The Senate voted to increase by $3 a month Federal assistance to the aged, blind and disabled, boost aid for dependent children by $2 a month. Cost: $140 million more a year...
...Gamblers, touts and gangsters operated nonchalantly for years in Florida. In the midst of graft and corruption, since his inauguration in January 1949, stood Governor Fuller Warren, 45, a handsome man with silvery hair and one of the loudest belly laughs in politics...
...supporters made one last try to resolve the dispute in his favor. They persuaded a state legislator to push through a bill to limit the Rollins board of trustees to citizens of Florida, a measure which would automatically oust most of the anti-Wagner trustees. But before Governor Fuller Warren got around to signing the bill, the legislator was persuaded to withdraw it. Then 15 trustees met at the college at Winter Park, reaffirmed their decision to drop Wagner and to appoint Art Professor Hugh F. McKean acting president in his place...
Three associations, representing door-to-door sellers of everything from Fuller Brushes to encyclopedias, joined with Breard to appeal his case, since the law dealt a heavy blow to the house-to-house selling of $1.4 billion in consumer goods each year, including some 10,000,000 magazine subscriptions. They wanted to test the constitutionality of the "Green River" ordinance which over 400 U.S. communities have adopted since Green River, Wyo. passed the first one in 1931 to slam the door on solicitors. Breard's lawyers charged that his arrest violated both freedom of the press and free speech...