Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county seats of South Carolina were wide awake last week. Through them since early summer had been traveling two political circuses: a party of eight candidates stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker...
...Governor Johnston is South Carolina newer-style-a husky Sergeant of Engineers who went through college after the War, drove to the top in politics with energy that sometimes gets him in trouble. Candidate Brown, quiet, efficient, lawyerlike, would not let voters forget the time "Machine Gun" Johnston called out the militia to drive able Chief Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer out of office, only to have the State Supreme Court uphold Mr. Sawyer. Both Candidates Johnston and Brown proudly recall that they worked in cotton mills as boys - a good political start in a State where textile workers vote...
...with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned plane for a month's vacation in Central America. As a parting gesture he called on his Republican foe, District Attorney Carl B. Shelley of Dauphin County (Harrisburg...
...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...