Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the last days of the campaign became so savage that it seemed Pennsylvania's Democracy might be wrecked, James A. Farley made an election eve proposal that each faction sacrifice one candidate, compromise on an Earle-Kennedy combination. This proposal Governor Earle promptly repudiated. Next day Pennsylvania's other Democrats repudiated it too, nominated Candidate Jones 6-to-5 over Candidate Kennedy. Candidate Earle 2-to-1 over Candidate Wilson...
...still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...
...Oregon, Governor Charles H. ("Old Iron Pants") Martin, a retired major general and once a Republican, now 74 and a Democrat, supported the New Deal in Congress, was boosted on a Roosevelt ticket in 1934 from Congress into the Governor's chair. But crusty Governor Martin energetically sniped at Secretary Ickes' plans for Bonneville Dam, criticized the NLRB in blistering speeches, blasted "that miserable" Secretary Perkins, ended up by antagonizing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. Not averse to tweaking even the Roosevelt nose, at Bonneville Dam last year the Governor introduced the gift-bearing...
Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
Last week, the grand jury handed down a scandalous 20,000-word report. It charged that "millions of dollars" of Waterbury money had been spent in an illegal manner since 1930. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest for fraud of Lieutenant Governor Hayes, ex-Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring...