Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Huey Long of Louisiana woke up early one morning, last week, and thought about shoes. He knew that 1,600 prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary were making their own shoes. He knew that the shoes were very short-lived. Each convict was wearing" out three pairs a year...
...Governor Long discovered a shoemaker who would supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...
...Oklahoma, where political parties are constantly split and where Rosicrudan philosophy (founded 1313) is still a topic of conversation, Governor-Suspend Henry Simpson Johnston went on trial, last week, before the State Senate, sitting as a court on eleven articles of impeachment...
...focussed on a middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever...
Scene: The salle a manger of the Bank of France in the Hotel de Toulouse, an historic palace built by the great architect Francois Mansart, for a natural son of Louis XIV. On the long table twinkles plate of gold. (Enter Governor Emile Moreau of the Bank of France and the principal delegates: Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan of the U. S., Sir Josiah Stamp of Britain, Governor of the German Reichsbank, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Industrialist Alberto Pirelli of Italy, Banker Emile Francqui of Belgium, one-time financial attache at London, Kengo Mori of Japan, etc., not forgetting...