Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President offhandedly announced that the Navy's highest officer, Chief of Operations William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years...
...Relief appropriation passed without having to impose new taxes, which would violate his campaign pledges. His biggest asset, other than his own vigor and mien, is the fact that his predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board the former Governor's former secretary, Mrs. Myrna Young Smith, whom Martin Davey appointed just before he left office...
Minnesota's New Republican Governor Harold Stassen last week presented himself in Washington as a young man worthy of note because: 1) he had just put a bang-up, middle-of-the-road reform program through his first Legislature, and 2) he cannot run for the Presidency next year. He is 32, will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn...
...Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith was proclaimed Mayor of Treasure Island. Cracked he: "What we need in this country is good old-fashioned 'come-outside-and-put-me-out' Americanism." Others: Congressman Martin Dies (to harangue a patriotic meeting), Diva Grace Moore, Shirley Temple and parents...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...