Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt in My Day: "I hope she will not delay her visit too long." In Washington, a delegation of Massachusetts Democrats led by State Committeeman Charles Maliotis, who operates three restaurants and owns some real estate in Boston, called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next autumn. James Roosevelt said he would think it over. In New York, a committee headed by onetime Ambassador to Germany James Gerard announced that at an elaborate reception on April 3 it would present an Albert Einstein medal to the President's 83-year-old mother Mrs. James...
...years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens...
...correspondents declared they had never before seen Adolf Hitler and the 741 members of the German Reichstag in quite such an electric state of emotion as last week. For the first time since 1866 Austrian officials had their place with the Germans. Austria, now a German province, sent her Governor (not Chancellor) Arthur Seyss-Inquart to Berlin by air, dressed in the uniform of one of Dictator Hitler's Elite Guard. Austrian-born Herr Hitler was greeted by Reichstag President Göring with the words: "You conquered Austria not with bloody use of force but with your warm...
...early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents. In New York Mr. Shearn was defeated as a Democratic Hearst candidate for district attorney and later Governor, but finally won a seat on the State supreme court. In 1919 he left the bench for the bar, took along with him a pinched, judicial expression...
Until last week no other State had copied Massachusetts. That, however, was not so surprising as that no big old-line insurance company protested with much enthusiasm when New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman began last January to persuade his Legislature to allow New York's savings banks to issue life insurance. When the Massachusetts law was passed the companies were still slightly groggy from the 1906 investigation by the Charles Evans Hughes Committee and they said little. But whenever the subject came up in other States they said plenty. In New York, however, opposition came chiefly...