Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth and his first assistant, Russell J. Ryan, had resigned...
Taxation. Only tangible understanding reached was a high resolve to do something about conflicting taxation. Thumping the same theme as other Governors, New York's Lehman declared that the Federal Government was "almost monopolizing" some of the best tax fields, that if State income taxes were hiked to Federal levels the total tax bill in the higher brackets would exceed actual income. Eight of the ten tax sources from which New York gets more than four-fifths of its revenues were also tapped by the Federal Government. Since the Federal Government tends to win in all such conflicts...
Throughout the serious daytime sessions the dominant theme was the historic conflict of State and Federal authority-a conflict in which the Governors and their predecessors for 150 years had been reluctantly giving ground. Wyoming's Miller urged interchange of State data to eliminate gasoline-tax evasion. Handsome Governor Allred of Texas delivered a thoughtful appeal for closer co-operation between State parole boards. The rest of the speeches, almost without exception, were devoted to encroachment of Federal power. Topics of discussion and typical ejaculations...
Food & Fun. On their second night at Atlantic City the Governors frolicked at a big "Circus Fun-Fest" in the Hotel Traymore's main dining room, which was decorated like a circus tent, overrun with clowns, fake policemen, a menagerie of men in animal skins and three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When...
...familiar name of Gaffney appears among the list of guards. Thomas M. Gaffney, brother to Captain Jim Gaffney of last year's Varsity, weighs in from Governor Dummer at 165 pounds. From Exeter comes Thomas Lacey, who played a good and improving guard for his school last year...