Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under state law, Long could not have been involuntarily committed in Louisiana while still Governor. He would first have had to be impeached, a lengthy process which, while running its course, would have left an obviously irresponsible man at the head of the state...
...British hope that the fervent anti-Communism of Malaya's ruling conservatives, and Lee's own comprehension of the island's economic, dependence on foreign trade and capital, will hold him on a moderate course. As he congratulated Prime Minister Lee last week, retiring British Governor Sir William Goode (who will stay on as High Commissioner until a native of Singapore can be named to the job) handed him a letter from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan offering Britain's cooperation and help in ruling the island city that Sir Stamford Raffles founded in tropical swamps...
Charging that many of the top officials of the old government encouraged his smuggling, Kassim told how once the late Governor General Ghulam Mohammed had ordered him to treat "as his own brothers" three Arabs whom he asked Kassim to assist in smuggling into Karachi two shipments of gold. Kassim also incriminated associates of former President Iskander Mirza and ex-Prime Ministers Noon and Suhrawardy, as well as 18 top Karachi police and customs officials. No matter which politicians were in power, he said, their henchmen demanded payoffs, and when he tried to quit the rackets they would...
...Georgia's school-age children. Carefully, Georgia-born Judge Hooper did not order integration by next September; he ordered the city's board of education to submit a plan within a "reasonable" time. He had reason for caution: arch-segregationist Georgia already has a ticklish law allowing Governor S. Ernest Vandiver to close integrated schools in order to "preserve peace and good order...
Lafayette College Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat, Maine LL.D. Governor Mark Hatfield, Republican, Oregon LL.D...