Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew pungent also about turning relief back to the States: "I wouldn't want any Governor handling my funds, even if I were a Governor. It's too political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city budget balances, added that he wished for a pay-as-you-go WPA, financed by taxes, not bond issues! "Let me tell you, as an American citizen, it worries me, this going deeper and deeper into debt...
...Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling suit, Jim Farley was looking to see who could next be champion...
...Moines (to postmasters): "Everything we do should be calculated to assist and encourage private enterprise." Crossing Missouri, Jim Farley listened closely to what people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where...
...King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
...faculty, was acknowledged an outstanding scholar on the South's economy and a popular teacher. To the Sun (which had itself quarreled with and been denounced by him), Dr. Mitchell had "stood for many years as a symbol of academic freedom" at Johns Hopkins. He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist,* excoriated Marylanders for the lynching of a Negro, quarreled with Hopkins trustees, once went to Duke University to tell its co-eds that Benefactor James Buchanan Duke "was lacking in social insight...