Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Culbert Levy Olson, California's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, thrust a $35,000 jeweled key into the lock of a gilded miniature Golden Gate bridge one morning last week and, with a symbolic push, proudly opened 1939's first world's fair, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Few minutes later, to the jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior...
...unhappy marriage has been Renovation (divorce in Nevada) which requires six weeks' residence. Last week on Valentine's Day the rugged (and strongly Roman Catholic) State of Montana set up a rival divorce market when its Senate passed (35 to 18) a lower-house bill, which Governor Roy E. Ayers was sure to sign, requiring residence of only 30 days for divorcers, on broad grounds from incompatibility to insanity...
Natty and indignant, Chip appeared before the committee to defend his fee. He claimed that engineering work on the project had put him $110,000 out of pocket, that he had taken Georgia's Governor...
Because the state has adopted biennial sessions for the Legislature the drive to remove the oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...
...conclusive defeat of the repeal bill yesterday was the fourth of a series of reversals for opposition forces of the oath. Two years ago the law narrowly escaped erasure from the books when, after passing in both the House and the Senate, it met the veto of Governor Hurley...