Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President radioed to Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico his happiness over the latter's escape from assassins' bullets (TIME, Aug. 1).* In Kansas City, Mo., the Secret Service arrested one John Dean, 65, for enclosing clippings of the attempt on Governor Winship's life in a letter to President Roosevelt which said: "Don't you take a chance. I feel that I must come to Washington to kill you for my country is at stake and I love my country passionately...
...Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership...
Rumors titillated last week in the island of Bermuda, where the Assembly decades ago voted to outlaw automobiles, that loggerheading Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., D.S.O. will go back to England and stay there unless as Governor of Bermuda he is permitted to have a motor car. Before the Assembly itself it was hotly argued for Sir Reginald that the 100 troops under his command ride in motor trucks, that even the island's garbage is collected by motor lorry, so it is unseemly, illogical, ridiculous and in bad taste that their Governor, who is, moreover...
Protest. Under the chairmanship of Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama, the Conference (minus Kentucky, which withdrew because it suffers least from the disparities by its location, has a competitive advantage over the "deep South") visited President Roosevelt, carried on an extensive advertising campaign, developed a mass of data which they laid before ICC at Birmingham to prove that Southern industries suffer from the disparities in rates. At the Buffalo hearings, which began fortnight ago, Bibb Graves was on hand to publicize the South's position but not to testify. That privilege was reserved for the North, and Governor Herbert...
Four years ago dapper, dynamic Don Francisco, West Coast advertising man, organized the campaign that kept Upton Sinclair from becoming Governor of California. Two years later he planned the fight that licked California's chain-store tax. Besides these two feats, able Adman Francisco, head of Lord & Thomas' San Francisco office for 17 years, has built up such lucrative accounts as California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist), The All-Year Club of Southern California and Californians, Inc. (tourists). He has also advertised Southern Pacific Co., the Dollar Steamship Lines, Union Oil Co. of California...