Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring to the U. S. Senate, was coveted by Mr. Earle's Attorney General, Charles J. Margiotti who, like George Earle, was formerly a Republican. Mr. Margiotti charged Mr. Earle's colleagues-upon whose behavior he was presumably a behind-scenes expert-with horrid crimes. The Governor bade his" Attorney General substantiate the charges and prosecute. When Margiotti failed to do so, Earle fired him (TIME...
...making peace with GovernorEarle, like Senator Joe Guffey, Mr. Margiotti went to his Republican cronies in Dauphin County (Harrisburg) and got District Attorney Carl B. Shelley to start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle called one, giving 23 reasons besides the chief one, which...
...Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved...
...Roosevelt agency which has no cash donations with which to smooth the path of Federal domination over State Governments is NLRB. Last week, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel and NLRB collided in a test of State v. expanding U. S. sovereignty. In paternalized Newton, where C. I. 6. employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union...
Thereupon the Governor took his drastic step. He ordered his soldiers to halt the NLRB proceedings, explained: "It is vital that the opposing parties . . . centre their attention on settlement of their differences." Said Maytag Attorney Edward Ford: "Rehashing the gripes of the men before a large crowd does not make for a peaceful atmosphere." Convinced that the company was trying to starve out the strikers the union professed to welcome martial intervention, said all that prevented settlement was Maytag's refusal to negotiate. Equally convinced that a State Governor lacked power to interfere with a Federal proceeding, NLRB ordered...