Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gov. Davis, whose popular fame rests largely upon the cup he donated to international tennis, is rich, 50, a Harvard man. He began his career as Public Baths Commissioner of St. Louis. During the War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regular Army, won the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism" in operations at Baulny and Chaudron Farm, France, Sept. 29-30, 1917. He became an Assistant Secretary of War in 1923, was the first World War army veteran to be advanced to the head of that department...
Louisiana has yet to make history by trying a Governor under impeachment. For a month its House of Representatives had labored mightily erecting an impeachment case against redheaded, dimple-cheeked Gov. Huey P. Long. Last week this whole structure fell to the ground when sufficient State Senators banded together to vote for Gov. Long's acquittal regardless of any evidence against...
Louisiana has 39 State Senators. Twenty-six would be required for an impeachment conviction, 14 for acquittal. Just after the Long trial started last week in the Louisiana Senate, 15 Senators agreed that the proceedings were technically illegal and unconstitutional because the House had impeached Gov. Long at a special session unduly extended. Six of these Long Senators, despite their oath to serve as fair and impartial judges of his case, had sat on platforms from which Gov. Long was haranguing crowds in his own defense. With the opportunity of a full trial on the evidence thus excluded, the remaining...
...Gov. Long had contended that the impeachment campaign against him was instigated by the Standard Oil Co. as a reprisal against his demand for a 5?^ per barrel oil-refining tax to raise funds for state improvements...
These disorders drew protests against the use of troops in Happy Valley. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York State resigned as a director of the Bemberg and Glantzoff companies after futile attempts to induce their managements to settle the strike, to forego the use of armed forces...