Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre. Suddenly, above the screen voices, came an ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance to move before their adobe homes fell on them. Thousands more got into the streets only to be buried beneath falling buildings...
...Higgins, born 1780 was the natural son of a Chilean mother and an adventurous Irish father, Ambrosio O'Higgins. Born plain Ambrose O'Higgins in County Meath, Father Ambrosio went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first independent permanent government...
...concluding, Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall and his executive council last week summarily dismissed Education Commissioner James G. Reardon, who week before had testified that he signed more than $400,000 in contracts to repair hurricane damage to teachers' colleges because former Governor Charles F. Hurley told him to (TIME...
...Governor Saltonstall promptly appointed to succeed Mr. Reardon, Walter Francis Downey, headmaster of Boston English High School, like Mr. Reardon, a Roman Catholic. Trim, white-haired Walter Downey, 54, a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst and a crack tennis player, sits on the bench with coaches and players at English High football games, in his excitement twists & squirms as hard as anyone on the field...
Married. The Honorable Anne Wigram, 25, daughter of Lord Wigram, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle, longtime private secretary to George V ; and John Leslie Harvey, son of a British army officer; at Windsor, England. At the wedding, first held at Windsor Castle in 25 years, unseasonable snow stranded hundreds of guests...