Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demagogic chicanery of this political band-master and his consistent hostility to what is fine and liberal need no recital here. Just how much injury he inflicted on the people of Boston during his last tenure of office will never be accurately known, for immediately following it he became Governor and gained control of the Finance Committee which was just beginning to investigate the Dolan case and one or two other irregularities that the Honorable Mayor had left behind...
...Democratic nomination in Arkansas is under normal circumstances tantamount to election. All Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less risky method of having himself nominated by the State Democratic Committee on the ground that 120 days was not enough time to hold a primary and an election. Last summer, anti-Bailey Democrats, including the late Joe Robinson's faction of the party, held a convention of their own, nominated for Senator...
Main campaign issues were the New Deal on one hand, and Governor Bailey's high-handedness on the other. Making capital of the fact that his opponent had opposed major White House bills including the Court Plan in the last session, Governor Bailey promised to support the President's program in full, announced that Representative Miller's candidacy was "conceived in malice and born in hatred of the President's . . . administration." Apparently deciding that criticism of the New Deal was an offense less heinous than highhandedness, Arkansas voters this week swept Representative Miller into higher office...
Apparently the only substantial force that has occurred at Narragansett is the force exerted by the soldiers sent in by Governor Quinn. Apparently the only war in Rhode Island is the war of words between the pent-house and the State House. If there has been no more disorder and violence at this race-track than what Boston newspapers have reported, then the odds against the legality of the Governor's action are longer odds than these wagered on any horse that ever ran at Narragansett Park...
...validity of Governor Quinn's martial law predlamation come before any court for review? This final question presented by the race-track controversy must be deferred until tomorrow for consideration