Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked in his room at a mental hospital in Galveston early last week, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long was raging. He wanted out, demanded that he be permitted to return to his home state. He hired lawyers; then he fired them when they refused to do his bidding. At length, he implored his wife Blanche to get him released, promised her that he would submit to psychiatric treatment in New Orleans. Blanche Long, worried about her husband's loss of weight and fearing for his weak heart, agreed. After Earl signed a paper releasing his wife and state...
...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...
Earl Warren, former California governor, U.S. Chief Justice................. D.C.L...
...opera's improbable libretto has to do with the efforts of the heroine, Amelia Egmont, to kill the Duke of Alba, 16th century Spanish governor of the conquered Low Countries. She succeeds only in killing her lover Marcello, who turns out to be Alba's long-lost son. In a preposterous ending, the duke leaves Marcello's body lying on the dock and sails for home to a cheerful mariners' chorus...
...furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary, Thomas' responsibilities grew with the club; he became local president, district governor, sparked the movement that more than trebled Rotary membership in New Zealand...