Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver Bullets? The Chinese who had commanded Canton's defenses, General Yu Han-mou, Military Governor of Kwangtung Province, ceremoniously surrendered to the Japanese. His Chinese enemies accused him of taking "Silver Bullets" (bribes), his Chinese friends warmly defended him. They said the Generalissimo had withdrawn so many troops from South China, believing the Japanese would not attack Canton until after they seized Hankow, that when the surprise offensive came fortnight ago it was impossible to do more at Canton than carry out the "Scorched Earth" orders, duly executed under General...
Walter Edmund O'Hara, independent candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...
Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice won. So last week the two Governors motored to the top of Pike's Peak, which Governor Ammons thereupon handed over to Governor Allred. Governor Allred raised the Texas flag...
...Narragansett Park, from whose management he was ousted early this year by his opponent, Governor Robert E. Quinn...
...became apparent that a reduction was coming despite these arguments, the companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot charge different...