Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full professorship, a reputation among philosophers for the originality, skepticism, intellectual geniality of his editorship of the International Journal of Ethics. His third career, as publicist and politician, blossomed around the University's radio Round Table which he helped found in 1931. Three years later Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner invited him to run for the State Senate in the partly Negro and ordinarily Republican University district. As a politician Philosopher Smith proved no flash in the pan. Although he had repudiated Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine and alienated Sponsor Horner by his independence, this year...
Giddy Puerto Ricans last week leaped to the conclusion that the U. S. was about to go to war, that they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...
...first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would...
...worn blue jacket and battered white yachting cap seeking a U. S. publisher for his book. Back in the job-hunting mill he had fled four years before, he had recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...