Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smokers who tear off the corner of a pack of cigarets to open it seldom damage the blue 6? U. S. revenue stamp, bearing a grumpy likeness of New York's canal-digging Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828). When they throw the emptied package away, they provide an occupation for untold numbers of scavengers who hunt not only for cellophane and tinfoil wrappings but for untorn revenue stamps. These stamps are not canceled. They can be steamed off, used again. Federal authorities well know that there are crooked, tax-dodging cigaret manufacturers who pay ½? for every undamaged DeWitt...
Said he: "Without meaning to be so, any Democratic Governor is, perforce, the good-will advertising, the front man, the window dressing for what is in part, at least, a thoroughly corrupt machine. . . . That politics should be in disrepute in this, the greatest of democratic countries, is a crime against the people. The science of representative government should be, it must become, our most honorable profession. For politics is the lifeblood of democracy...
...dull moments, particularly when Hollywood gives its standard expose of how college students live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or so close to the truth that they compel laughter. Enough in itself is the wild-eyed performance of John Barrymore as Gabby Harrigan, the governor with the Communist thatch, who makes political promises solely in order to brighten the voters' lives with anticipation. Framework for the picture's satiric thrusts is the story of an exotic senatorial campaign which is fought out by the opposing candidates' football teams, in which the Saturday afternoon crowds...
...repeal, while Curley, of course is thoroughly in favor of the measure". Committing himself to personal support of the Republican candidate, the Geology I lecturer admitted that only lack of time had prevented that only lack of time had prevented organization of a Faculty committee to oppose the former Governor...
President Conant led the fight two years ago to repeal the law with a personal plea before the House committee on education. After passing in both houses of the State Legislature the measure to remove the existing statute was vetoed by Governor Hurley...