Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentucky, where the Committee told Senator Barkley to hurry up and send back his campaign expenditures questionnaire. A Committee investigator was sent back to look further into charges of WPA support for Mr. Barkley and also into the operation of Governor Chandler's State machine. Mr. Chandler (see p.11) frankly admitted to the Committee that State employes had been chosen chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator...
...fight of Governor Gordon Browning and Senator George L. Berry for renomination had been a Democratic battle royal with no holds barred, for out to break them was another tough political alliance consisting of Memphis' potent Boss Ed Crump and Tennessee's other Senator, bumbling Kenneth McKellar. Boss Crump had tuned up his machine (accustomed to turning out a net majority of 70,000 for his candidates), and Senator McKellar swung in his Federal patronage for their candidates (Prentice Cooper for Governor, Tom Stewart* for Senator). So Messrs. Browning and Berry, fighting for their political lives with...
...Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary-treasurer of the National Democratic Executive Committee, commented on the nomination of W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, radio flour salesman, for Governor of Texas: "He is a real man and he knows what he is doing. . . . He is my kind of a Democrat...
...beginning in 1930, for the first time made exports exceed her imports. The underprivileged population continued, however, to live in hovels, to scrabble for a living with primitive implements. Discontent was widespread. Angolans appealed for funds from home. Finance Minister Salazar, resolute for balanced budgets, refused to listen. When Governor-designate of Angola, General Joao d'Almeida, three months ago asked for relief funds, Premier Salazar instead sent him into exile...
...risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy...