Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taxpayers of Westchester County, N. Y. held a mass meeting last week in White Plains to protest the cost of their State Government. One speaker suggested that the Republican Legislature adopt a greatly reduced budget, let Democratic Governor Lehman veto it if he dare. State Senator Pliny W. Williamson (Republican) expostulated: "You wouldn't want the courts and State institutions and offices closed for lack of funds, would...
...over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
Credit for tipping President Roosevelt off personally on the case against Boss Pendergast was given to Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, handsome, 53-year-old Democrat of military background and bearing, famed for the apples ("Stark's Delicious") which his father raised before him. For alert Governor Stark a Presidential trial balloon promptly went up last week in the famed "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (syndicated column by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen...
...Governor Stark quarreled with Boss Pendergast in 1937 over the reappointment of R. Emmet O'Malley, State superintendent of insurance. All Missouri had wondered about a great insurance rate fight, which Mr. O'Malley settled in 1935. Insurance companies had jacked up their rates on fire and windstorms. Some $9,500,000 in increased premium collections were impounded by the courts when the policyholders protested. Mr. O'Malley's settlement returned 20% of the money to policyholders, 50% to the companies; the other 30% was to defray litigation costs. What the grand jury believed last week...
...Innsbruck, in old Austria, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the German Army, and Undersecretary for War General Alberto Pari-ani, Italy's chief of Army staff, conferred on "common military problems." Field Marshal Hermann Goring was in Italian Libya as the guest of Governor Air Marshal Italo Balbo. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, after a brief and none-too-cordial reception in Egypt, arrived at the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 45,000 Italian troops were reported as having landed. On the neighboring Dodecanese Islands, strongly fortified Ital...