Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bermuda, lying carelessly like a torn green leaf on a sunswept turquoise tile, is a warm and romantic group of islands where many a U. S. toiler escapes from traffic lights, Klaxons and carbon monoxide to bicycles and horse-drawn buggies. Bermuda is also the place where Governor Lieut. General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard's feet hurt...
...three and one-half years Sir Reginald has tried hard to persuade his Assembly to exempt him (as the Army and garbage are now exempt) from Bermuda's ban on the use of automobiles. The Assembly has always refused: the Governor could get about perfectly well, like everyone else, by foot, bicycle, buggy, train, motorboat, ferry or sailboat...
...Conquest (Republic). This week's addition to the cinema's rapidly growing biography shelf is a lively portrait of General Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee (1827-29), victor over Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, and President of the Republic of Texas...
...subject for polite, Hays-worthy cinema treatment, Sam Houston presented able Screenwriter Wells Root and his collaborators with notable problems. Houston's career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing...
Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight months later he was shot...