Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having got into their chamber, the Senators invited the Representatives to come and meet there too. Governor Johnston blocked this move with his guardsmen. Back to the Huckins Hotel went the irate Representatives, to add "moral turpitude" to their list of Governor Johnston's crimes. Specifically, he was supposed to have conferred with Mrs. Hammonds, his secretary, in a hotel bedroom after 2 a. m. one morning. Also to have lived with his wife in a two-family house of which Mrs. Hammonds and her husband occupied half...
...Said Governor Johnston: "What can you do against men who will go to extremes? . . . All of us are discussed sometimes and more or less in the pool halls, on street corners and in barrooms. . . . I am not going to dignify this third-rate quilting party by discussing...
...Governor Johnston steadfastly ignored his antagonists but cast anxious glances toward the U. S. Supreme Court. To that tribunal, august in Washington, he was determined to carry Oklahoma's vexatious problems: When is a Governor not a Governor? When can a Legislature legislate...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...
...Governor Fields' last official act observed the tradition by virtue of which so many Kentuckians can call themselves "Colonel." He appointed Thomas P. Middleton, his state commissioner of securities, to be a Colonel on his staff for the few hours remaining. Col. Middleton was thus rewarded for faithful services. A more interesting example of the Colonel custom was the case of John William Stoll Jr. of Lexington, Ky., whose father is a potent banker. John William Stoll Jr. became a Colonel on the staff of onetime (1915-19) Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley at the age of two weeks...