Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issuance of a pardon for Dewey Crosthwaite, convicted murderer of School Teacher Thelma Lovejoy. Governor Johnston said that it was "the greatest mistake of my life...
...Hammonds, when asked about The Ewe Lamb Rebellion, last week, said: "I have not thought about it." But L. Howell Lewis, astrologer of Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...
...Governor Johnston denounced the impeachment proceedings as "an example of Mexican politics by a legislature not quite brave enough to commit physical assassination to get me, but scarcely less reprehensible." He has been under fire ever since he took office...
Oklahoma is no stranger to impeachment matters. In 1921, Governor J. B. A. Robertson's impeachment case was dropped when the House came to a tie vote. In 1923, Governor Jack C. Walton was impeached and ousted from office...
Born. A son, William Alexander, the firstborn, to Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, onetime actress (the nun in The Miracle), campaigner for President-Reject Alfred E. Smith, niece of onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; in Manhattan...