Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cameron Forbes '92 will speak to the Freshmen class on "Spain Under General France" in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:30 O'clock tonight. Mr. Forbes, who has been United States Ambassador to Japan, and Governor-General of the Philippines, was a recent visitor in Spain as the guest of General Franco...
...Campaigning for re-election as Governor of Oregon, Democrat Charles Henry ("Old Iron Pants") Martin last week announced that when the President visited Bonneville Dam last fall, he had exclaimed: ''You and I make a good pair.'' Said Secretary Early: "When this was called to the President's attention he expressed surprise at its publication and said that to the best of his knowledge he never made such a statement to Governor Martin...
...Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin. Five days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration was hopelessly bogged down, that the La Follette National Progressives were the U. S.'s only answer...
...Meantime Governor Phil, the recognized organizing brain of the National Progressives, held an equally significant meeting with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson. Occasion was a barbecue supper for the two third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
John L. Lewis, an Oklahoma City dentist, is running for Congress. Patrick Henry, a Rush Springs cowboy, and Joe Miller, an Elk City farmer, are running for State Auditor. Others: Joe E. Brown, school superintendent in Dustin, for Secretary of State; Robert Burns, Oklahoma City lawyer, for Lieutenant Governor; Brigham Young, Oklahoma City engineer, and Wilbur Wright, Muskogee painter, for Congress; Daniel Boone, McAlester barber, and Huey Long, Oklahoma City businessman, for clerk of the Supreme Court...