Word: governor
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Oliver Max Gardner, at 47, is North Carolina's youngest Governor. Cottonmill owner, lawyer, farmer, he plays a left-handed game of golf, is fondly called "Max" by most Tarheel voters. At North Carolina State College he was a famed football player. Twenty years in Democratic politics, grey-haired, handsome, easy-mannered, he was elected last year without turning Hoovercratic to please bitter little old Senator Simmons...
Eyes for coincidence noted more than a similarity of names between the young athletic Governor of North Carolina and young athletic Governor of Maine. William Tudor Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., aged 37, was a Harvard tackle 15 years ago. During the War he spent 22 months in the Army, advanced from private to first lieutenant. He entered the State House of Representatives in 1921, became its speaker. His chief pastime: hunting bear, moose, deer in his Maine woods...
...Governor Roosevelt was "definitely disturbed" by "hot weather stories" about his presidential candidacy. Later in the week he issued a statement which the politically-wise took none too seriously: "I am not a candidate for President .... Purely speculative and wholly false insinuations about any consideration which I am giving to national candidacy. . . . This [Governorship of New York] is a man's-sized job which takes all my time...
...Governor & Mrs. Richards have nine daughters...
...Fortnight ago Director William H. Allen of the New York Institute of Public Service petitioned New York's Governor Roosevelt to remove Mayor Walker from office on the ground of incompetency. Playfully temporized the Governor: "I have received so many letters in the last few days asking for the removal of every public official from the President of the U. S. down to, dog, catcher that it will take me a few days to read them...