Word: governor
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Trailing at a distance were Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Kennedy scored 43 votes and Rockefeller...
...administration doubled tuition, from $100 to $200 for state residents, to make the pay hike possible. Massachusetts actually profited by the change. Some additional $644,000 would have been obtained, and only $479,000 disbursed to the faculty. Bill 1030, the pay-raise proposal, seemed certain of passage. Governor Foster Furcolo deliberated a special message ("high quality public education is the Commonwealth's greatest natural resource"); President Mather stumped the state and appeared before the powerful Committee on Education; and students rallied to the support of the bill...
...student body quickly rallied to support their professors and their president. An effigy bearing the sign, "John Powers--Traitor" went up in flames (an apology was filed the next day), and a group of students drove the 100 miles to Boston to picket the state capitol. Governor Furcolo filed a special message with the legislature on August 24 which forced reconsideration of the salary issue...
Final figures showed Nixon leading Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of New York, by a 615-139 margin. Nixon was the favorite among Republicans with 437 first-choice votes to 87 for Rockefeller, and he led the New York governor, 139-38, among independent voters...
Famous as an authority on business and labor relations, he authored the Slichter Law, which empowers the Governor of Massachusetts to step into a strike where the health and welfare of a community are endangered...