Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song and endearing himself to the no-collar vote...
...dinner, which is sponsored by Robert F. Herrick '90, will include as honor guests President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Bill Bingham, Tom Bolles, and Dick Harlow...
...Yardlings play host to a strong Andover team on the Business School Field at 2:30 also. The Freshmen have split their first two engagements, winning from Governor Dummer and losing to Exeter...
President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, and Bill Bingham will be honorary guests at the dinner. Governor Saltonstall was captain of the famous crew of 1914. The Varsity, J.V., Freshman combination, and the 150-pound crews are also invited as guests...
...unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he was still in Germany, he had twice returned to U. S. jurisdiction, had twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape...