Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few weeks in some hopes that I would find something of local interest that has attracted much attention and comment. Namely, it is the vote taken recently in Texas on two proposed amendments to the State constitution; one of them providing for an increase of the Governor's salary from $4,000 per annum to the appalling (decided so by the people of Texas) sum of $10,000, the other providing for some reforms in the Texas Supreme Court. However, both of these proposed amendments met with defeat...
This fate I attribute to the ignorance and intellectual backwardness of the people of Texas as a whole. The largest State in the Union will not pay their Governor but $4,000 a year! A State with a population well over ten million will not pay their Governor as large a salary as the Federal Government pays their representatives to Congress! The State of Texas will not reorganize their Supreme Court into modern form! . . . This situation is ridiculous...
...desk clear, he hurried off to Illinois to make a waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
Charlottesville. Most vivid of the week's events was a debate between Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie...