Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These protests come as the result of the appointment of the committee of three by Governor Fuller, which he has asked to act as a sort of advisory board in his investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The commission, however, is to sit independent of the Governor, who will continue his own study of the case as before. The members of the newly appointed committee will conduct their investigation in whatever way they see fit and probably will not hold any public hearings...
...attack on the action of Governor Fuller Mr. Goodwin said in part...
...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
Imperious Etiquette. One would suppose that General Baron Byng of Vimy, World War hero and recent Governor General of Canada, would be welcome at any banquet. Yet he was excluded last week from the State Dinner tendered to President Doumergue by Their Majesties...
...emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the governor...