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Word: governors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should therefore interest you to know that this illegitimate child of yours came of educational age this week, hit the headlines in Boston papers by presenting Democratic ex-Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Communist Earl Browder, and Fascist Lawrence Dennis in this Republican bailiwick debating "What lies ahead for Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...week the sesquicentennial was marked by two more events: 1) rich Bibliophile A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia revealed that he had obtained, for an undisclosed sum from an undisclosed source, the original draft of the Bill of Rights; 2) Massachusetts got around at last to ratifying it.* Explained Governor Saltonstall as he signed in the presence of uniformed cadets: his State's delay was due to the liberty-loving fathers of Massachusetts having sought to protect the people's rights by "even more inclusive definitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Birthday Party | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...GOVERNOR SALTONSTALL is responsible. After ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS he has signed the Bill of Rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 YEARS TOO LATE | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Water fights are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Harvard men must use GUNS. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," says Governor Saltonstall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 YEARS TOO LATE | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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