Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky, where Negroes used to be traded by Republican bosses but stayed out of the Democratic primary, Senator ''Dear Alben" Barkley and Governor "Happy" Chandler bid for the Negro vote this year. Dear Alben more successfully. Happy called old Negroes "Uncle" but Dear Alben had a stranglehold on the WPA rolls...
...four of the major U. S. airlines with his contention that the logical metropolitan air terminal for mail, express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark...
...Hennepin County Attorney Ed Goff and Ramsey County Attorney Michael Kinkead. Authority: State "anti-defamatory" statute protecting the mem ory of dead men. Reason: an article, "Murder in Minneapolis," by Edith Liggett, widow of crusading Editor Walter W. Liggett, murdered in Minneapolis Dec. 9, 1935, in which the late Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota is attacked. Also attacked by Mrs. Liggett: County Attorney Goff, now running for reelection, and other Minneapolis politicians. Widow Liggett, 37, now lives in Manhattan, supports her son and daughter by writing "true detective stories...
...Extended its wheat export subsidy plan to flour. Fortnight ago W. Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman and Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas, suggested the idea. Last week AAA announced it expected to dispose of 5,000,000 bbl. abroad...
Texas State Network (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., MBS) of 23 formerly independent stations introduced to the nation by Network President Elliott Roosevelt. Governor-Nominate W. Lee O'Daniel, the O'Daniel Hillbilly campaign band...