Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporter named Cobb, who had been watching the three men approach, dashed out of the capitol and across the frozen lawn. He knew it was Big News. The dying man was William Goebel, who had just successfully contested in the legislature the election of his Republican opponent for Governor of Kentucky...
William S. ("Hog Jaw") Taylor was his name. He was the candidate who had the Governor's office while Goebel contested it. At his trial it was testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...
...case dragged along in the courts, and "Governor" Taylor kept out of jail. One day in May the Supreme Court of the U. S. made a decision.* Mr. Taylor paced up and down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...
...Chicago, Federal Reserve directors discussed radical action, a return to the early system of "differential rediscounting," with low rates for agricultural and industrial loans, high rates for loans destined for speculation. To Manhattan came curly-haired Roy Archibald Young, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, ostensibly on a tour of inspection. But bankers noted his arrival coincided with the issuance of a serious warning by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Banks were "overloaned." The discrepancy between deposits and loans was becoming too great...