Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paraffin tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...
...peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
Fortnight ago, during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...shuddered, Barkley partisans disbelieved and smirked. Non-Chandler doctors pooh-poohed the poison story. Waiter Berry insisted he had filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting his address dramatically, Mr. Barkley pointed...
...Governor George Howard Earle, who pictures himself as Pennsylvania's counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly...