Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expressing sympathy with the present administration's "announced objectives" but disapproval of its methods, the former Governor-general of the Philippines cited the N. R. R., A. A. A., the Supreme Court Bill, and the Reorganization Bill, as examples of New Deal attempts to centralize power unconstitutionally in the executive. "It doesn't make a hill of beans difference, if you go off to the Left or to the Right," he said. "You end up under tyranny...
...curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent its own accountant over to the Whitney offices to verify the figures. What made the Exchange so alert it would not reveal last week, but there was good reason to suppose that some of the Governors already suspected Whitney irregularities.* In November Governor Edward Henry Harriman Simmons had had difficulty getting Whitney to return certain securities of the Exchange Gratuity Fund...
...next day, while Dick Whitney was consulting his lawyer - Charles Henry Tuttle, 1930 G. O. P. candidate for Governor of New York-the Attorney General's office did make a grab for his body. Commodore William A. Stewart of the Yacht Club wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second...
Perhaps best known among the several hundred men of 1913 who will be in Cambridge during reunion week are Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania and Adolph A. Berle, a member of President Roosevelt's original brain trust and now assistant secretary of State...
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '08 son of the former president, once Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Porto Rice, and Governor-General of the Philippines, will address Yardlings in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock this evening. It is thought that, as former chief executive of two of our insular possessions. Roosevelt's talk will concern them or American colonial policies in general...