Word: governor
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...ancestor, Citizen Genet, married Cornelia Tappan Clinton, daughter of George Clinton, first Governor of New York State. George was Governor 1777-95, while De Witt was Governor much later. For a while, De Witt served as secretary to his Uncle George...
What do you think of Arkansas and Governor Faubus now? Your previous attacks on a man who struggled to make something of himself in the American way were abominable. You even ridiculed his speech (which I greatly prefer to Brooklynese...
TIME, Aug 11, states that Citizen Genēt married a daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton. The girl Citizen Genet married was probably a daughter of Governor George Clinton, De Witt's uncle...
Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, just nominated (and thus elected) for his third term, had no such qualms. "Compliance," sneered Faubus, "cannot be obtained by invoking the sacred name of the Constitution, or by the use of the once-magic name of Eisenhower." At week's end he called a special session of the Arkansas legislature, asked it to pass a new set of anti-integration laws-in Southern anticipation of a final Supreme Court order to reintegrate Central High...
...major interest in Cyprus is to make sure that the island never falls into Greek hands. But . in Athens, the gloom was heavy. To Premier Constantine Karamanlis, as to most Greeks. Macmillan's modified plan seemed the beginning of partition. Fearing a renewal of bombings and murder, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot sent a personal message to Archbishop Makarios in Athens: "If this chance is not at once seized, I can foresee nothing but continuing misery for Cyprus." At week's end Makarios flatly rejected the Macmillan plan. In their shuttered houses on their pleasant island, Cypriots-both...