Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime, lusty veterans of the Spanish-American war also encamped last week. They convened in Denver, Col., went on record as favoring greater pensions, elected for Commander-in-Chief Fred Warren Green, the Governor of Michigan who does not cash his pay checks (TIME, Sept...
News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns...
...expensively campaigned for power export. Leader of its fight was Walter S. Wyman, President of the Central Maine. He reported that the funds expended in the campaign were the result of Insull profits in Texas, were not profits taken from Maine consumers. On the same side were former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1921-25) and numerous newspapers including the papers published by Guy Patterson Gannett.* Together they bombarded Maine with advice to permit power export...
Chief political figure on the anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...