Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under an Attorney-General appointed by the Governor; reapportionment of Senate & Assembly districts; restricting the State's authority to force expenditures by municipal budgets; legalization of parimutuel betting...
...While Governor Hurley, vetoer of the Oath Law, refused to comment last night, Thomas Dorgan, ex-assemblyman and sponsor of the bill stated: "My feeling on matters of this character have been expressed by me so many times in the past that further comment is unnecessary...
...been regarded with equal indifference by advocates of the first two: bidding for control of the Democratic Party by offering their own slate in the primaries. Gathered in Harrisburg for its first convention, the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council (C. I. O.) unanimously endorsed the Democratic primary candidacy of Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, urged its members to enroll as Democrats and to campaign for his nomination in the May 17 primary through the State branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...Pennsylvania Democratic machine was experiencing a split of its own. Mr. Kennedy's principal opponent for the gubernatorial nomination is the regular Democratic designee, Lawyer Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh. Running for the Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend, Governor George H. Earle. Governor Earle's support of Lawyer Jones has cost him the backing of C. I. O. and Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those who hope...
...secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena's ears. But such talk...