Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Bullitt arrived, after surviving a forced landing two days before in the airplane of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, the perennial rumor of a War debt settlement with France revived. Europe's affairs were doubtless a leading topic for discussion. The pair went motoring, talked long and privately while picnic-lunching at the roadside...
...Governor Lehman of New York came for lunch and Franklin Roosevelt's understood purpose was to get his sore-tried friend to whoop up the New Deal in his campaign for reelection. Mr. Lehman, unforgetting foe of the Court Plan, returned to his stump with kind words for Franklin Roosevelt but no New Deal honey on his tongue...
...High in the esteem of Janizary Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran as a candidate for the vacancy on the U. S. Supreme Court is Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, who is having a tough battle for reelection. Observers were not surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge...
...Governor Murphy is a devout Catholic, attends Mass regularly. Even his critics give him credit for broad tolerance...
After a period in which it refused permission to the student Union to use a lecture room for its proposed forum of the candidates for Governor of Massachusetts except under stringent conditions, the University last night removed all restrictions bit the one limiting admission to students only by ticket...