Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cameron Forbes' '92, former Governor-General of the Phillipines and former U. S. ambassador to Japan, will also speak. War correspondent Jane An- derson, who was roundly hissed when she attempted to reveal the truth about Spain here last winter, is also in the program
...west coast, a large sound truck equipped with a gramophone & amplifier nearly deafened the citizens of Pensacola with the Dipsy Doodle. This was the preface to an address by the State's onetime (1933-37) Governor Sholtz in which that dignitary found occasion to remark: "Either the Junior Senator is telling a deliberate untruth or he doesn't know what he is talking about." ¶ In Frostproof, near the State's centre, Representative Wilcox informed an audience that he was "a better friend to the old people than those who give them lip service in Florida...
David Sholtz is a 46-year-old Brooklyn German who most surprisingly capped his career as President of the Florida Chamber of Commerce by getting himself elected Governor in 1932. In Tallahassee, Governor Sholtz's career was notable for the amiability he showed toward Florida horse and dog race-track owners. Following a series of articles written for Publisher Moe Annenberg's Miami Tribune by a onetime pressagent for Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park, named Ollie Gore, Florida's State Senate last May adopted a resolution for an investigation of the former Governor...
...Florida Governors, like those of many Southern States, may not succeed themselves. Not in the least perturbed by his constituents' persistent curiosity about his personal bank account. Governor Sholtz reached a precipitous decision to run for the Senate last January, soon descended on the State with a retinue of press adviser and combined chauffeur & bodyguard...
...Governor George Howard Earle III presumably did not rise from Republican riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...