Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will go ahead until...
Herbert Henry Lehman, banker, son and brother of bankers, announced last week that, as Governor of New York, he had at last, after five fiscal years, wiped out an accumulated deficit of $94,428,496.67 left behind for fiscal 1933 by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fiscal 1938, said Governor Lehman, had ended with New York State some $16,600,000 in the black for the year, some $6,500,000 in the black for all years (apart from funded debt...
...Banker-Governor Lehman is now running for the U. S. Senate, and local adversaries took mild issue with his figures, saying that some of his indicated surplus funds were already pledged, that he had played a common little trick of year-end balance reading. Sharper issue, against a national sounding-board, was taken by the ex-Governor who created the deficit. In his speech at Covington, Ky. (see p. 7), Franklin Roosevelt digressed...
...Governor of New York . . . because I could get no assistance from Washington, I was compelled to create State deficits-to put the State treasury into the 'red'-in order to feed the destitute and give work to the unemployed...
...years that have intervened many of our States, because of that help back from the into the National 'black' again-my Government, own have got State of New York-and your own State of Kentucky. . . . Your Governor, my Governor and a good many other Governors are able to go before their people and announce proudly that they have balanced budgets...