Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Held a state funeral for Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois; heard that, to fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
...last week Virginia's Governor James H. Price, Norfolk's Mayor John A. Gurkin, with assorted State and local dignitaries, boarded the flagship California to welcome the U. S. Fleet to Virginia waters. Then they went ashore for a big civic luncheon. In mid-meal came a message from Washington. The officials gaped at their honor guest, Admiral Edward C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus. There was no longer much point in greeting the Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt (through Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson) had ordered most of it back to the Pacific...
...Last week he tried to laugh off his unfunny predicament by telling an inquiring reporter how the McElroy lawn was doing. Boss Tom himself ordered his councilmen to fall in with Mayor Smith. Object: to convince the Missouri Legislature that Kansas City could disinfect itself without further aid from Governor Lloyd C. Stark, who favors a bill to give the State control of the Pendergast police department...
While the Pennsylvania Property Owners Association warned that "Pennsylvania's public school system is doomed to early collapse," Pennsylvania's educators pleaded with economy-minded Governor Arthur H. James to replenish the special State fund for schools in distressed areas, now exhausted. Having pleaded in vain, nearly 200 teachers last week marched out of 27 schools in Northumberland and Schuylkill Counties, declared they would not go back until they were paid...
...Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...