Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Florida's Senator Claude Pepper won a resounding victory in a State primary last month, political wiseacres reached the solemn conclusion that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's popularity was on the upgrade. When Pennsylvania's Lieut.-Governor Thomas Patrick Kennedy (endorsed by Postmaster Farley), suffered a defeat in a State primary last week, political wiseacres reached the conclusion that Franklin Roosevelt's popularity was on the downgrade. Four days later, an Oregon primary election caused their judgment to be reversed...
...Personally I don't think there is any doubt Franco will win," W. Cameron Forbes '92, former Governor of the Philippines and former Ambassador to Japan declared in a talk in the Union last night sponsored by the Freshman Union Committee...
...Louisiana State University's Student Council. Able Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that...
Testifying before SEC last month, Edward H. H. Simmons said he had known that his former fellow Exchange Governor Richard Whitney had used cash belonging to the Gratuity Fund, but had not thought this significant enough to report to the Exchange because using customers' cash was general practice among brokerage houses. SEC regarded this assertion as remarkable, ordered the Exchange to look into the matter...
...price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...