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Word: governors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued Governor Horner across the State by telephone, the Herex strung out its scoop for two long days, finally delivered its "prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring-Around-The-Rosy | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Taking Governor Gabby Harrigan (John Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

University officials yesterday fell in line with Governor Hurley's request for a continuance of Daylight Saving Time with the following statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCLAMATION | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...compliance with the request of the Governor and Council Harvard University will observe Daylight Saving Time this week. By order of the President, (signed) Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Corporation. September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCLAMATION | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner, five standard Pullmans. It's an Act of God. It won't help you to call the Governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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