Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reuman retreated to consult with her father in Sacramento. At week's end Governor Olson still maintained neutrality. But Scully's office was certified legally his until Nov. 1, at least, by a court order obtained by his attorneys...
...legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of administrative assistant and secretary in the Department of Institutions. His boss was Director Aaron Rosanoff, well-known psychiatrist...
...time has been long, the measure small. India is still an Empire, with Britain's King its Emperor. Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest...
...Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with...
Married. Alfred Gustavus Baker Lewis, 42, wealthy, spasmodic Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; and Mrs. Eileen O'Connor Lane, 36, Socialist candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State last year; both for the second time; in Boston, Mass...