Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train stopped at Cheyenne, New Deal Senator H. Harry Schwartz, Governor Miller and Wyoming's one Representative, Paul R. Greever, who had all been invited aboard, were on hand. So was Senator O'Mahoney, uninvited but a member of a Citizens' Welcoming Committee. The joke appeared to be on Franklin Roosevelt. Said the President with gusto: "Hello...
...York police force units who spent the rest of the day trying to keep order, led off the parade, followed by such distinguished Legionnaires as Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia, local Governor and Mayor. The day warmed. Spotters posted down the Avenue from the reviewing stand pulled manifest inebriates out of line before the notables could see them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair...
...item is $22,000 a year to the National Commander ($10,000 salary, $12,000 expenses). At least four Legion Commanders have used the post as a springboard to major-league political jobs. Hanford MacNider (1921) and Alvin Owsley (1922) became U. S. Ministers. Paul V. McNutt (1928) became Governor of Indiana, is now High Commissioner to the Philippines. Louis Arthur Johnson (1932) is Assistant Secretary...
...that it was in the United States on August 7. And why? Because we are informed it was used in a communistic mass demonstration in New York City in honor of the communistic nominee for mayor and of a visiting candidate endorsed by the same party for governor of Minnesota. (The "Herald Tribune," August 8, 1937 contains the entire details on page 2, columns...
...official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...