Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill vacancies in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the President appointed Calvert Magruder, counsel of the Wage & Hour Administration (1st Circuit, Boston) and Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas (10th Circuit, the Southwest...
Object: pre-season training for the 1940 campaign. Chosen to speak at the first tryout were new Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, new Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
...days later Governor General Lord Cowrie asked him to form a cabinet. The big question was whether Mr. Menzies, who is forceful but not tactful, could get the conservative United Country Party to cooperate with the more liberal U. A. P. as Joe Lyons had skilfully done. As he began to line up a panel, again in a big hurry, he met with another accident which sprained his spirit...
Most amusing disclosure: a tutoring-school pupil last term was Caspar Griswold Bacon (Harvard '08), onetime Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and now both a special student at Harvard and a member of Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Mr. Bacon, taking a course in American Constitutional Government, crammed at Wolff's and at midyear...
...ceremonies will be held in the auditorium of the new building, with the members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers attending. Lucius N. Littauer '78, who donated the funds to establish the school, will speak along with Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, and Professor John H. Williams, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration...