Word: governors
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When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...
Sending his regrets to a committee which urged him to run for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Son-Secretary James Roosevelt last week replied: No, thank you. He spoke of a "desire, through study and experience, to develop further my knowledge of governmental affairs before considering the possibility of elective office. I hope that the future will afford me an opportunity to complete my studies at first hand and to offer my contribution to the welfare of my fellow citizens...
Politely knocking at the portals of public service for some time have been James Henry Roberts Cromwell of Somerville, N. J. and his pretty young wife, Doris ("Richest Girl") Duke, who gave $5,000 to re-elect New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore, $50,000 to help re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise...
When he took office, "Bible Bill" asked Ottawa for a loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
This year Ohio's Governor Martin Davey did not appoint a committee, pleaded inadequate funds; Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Samoa and the Virgin Islands sent no pictures; the Kansas exhibit consisted of 14 tidy prints that might have been designed in a fastidious recoil from the ostentatious earthiness of Midwesterners like Thomas Benton and Grant Wood. That State committees were an unpredictable factor was equally apparent in the State of Washington exhibit, predominantly abstract, and the Massachusetts collection, which was academic, mythological, and as out of tune with its neighbors as a choir at a Benny Goodman swing concert...