Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margiotti charged that Philadelphia's Contractor-Boss Matthew H. McCloskey and Secretary of State David Lawrence in 1935 obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected...
...economic life in Austria will be hard-hitting Josef Bürckel, a non-Austrian, known for his success in taming Catholics in the Saar-Palatinate. Last week Herr Bürckel received from Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Austria which reduce the position of Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Governor of Austria who paved the way for Hitler's triumph there, to that of a subordinate...
...animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Va., famed historical spot he is restoring...
...summer of 1937 handled certain perfectly legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them for personal loans as he was also doing with the securities of other customers. When Governor Edward H. H. Simmons tried to get the securities back, Dick Whitney stalled for time. Finally Mr. Simmons, who had preceded Whitney as president of the Exchange, forced the issue, got some inkling of the situation. Dick Whitney then asked for time to see his brother George. Mr. Simmons also...
...anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons for his act, showed its consequences not only...