Word: gored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
Puerto Rico, reputedly at the instigation of Dr. Barcelo's Liberals, protested Governor Gore's appointment of Rafael Alonzo Torres, Socialist, to the University Board of Trustees. Student delegations twice called on the Governor, were twice refused admittance. Incensed, they presented the Governor with a Manual of Manners, then went on strike, demanding the removal of Socialist Torres...
Last week, in the midst of the controversy, came news that Governor Gore's summer home, 50 mi. from San Juan, had been bombed shortly after he had left it. Next day another bomb, its fuse defective, was found in the garden of the Governor's mansion at San Juan. The Governor immediately ordered floodlights thrown around the mansion, asked Puerto Rican police to confiscate all guns and ammunitions stored at the University R. O. T. C. headquarters...
Pending solution of the Torres squabble, the University trustees declared a 12-day student recess. On the fourth day Governor Gore was taken to the hospital with a kidney ailment. Meanwhile a delegation of the coalition party which controls both Houses of the Legislature, arrived in Washington to assure President Roosevelt that they "backed up Governor Gore...
College Coach (Warner). The problems that confront Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien) in this picture-an attempt to buy real estate and sell it to Calvert College for a new stadium; the interest Mrs. Gore (Ann Dvorak) shows in a ringer halfback; the resentment of Calvert's best player (Dick Powell) when he gets passing marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into...