Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of setting up a special division in the Department of Justice to do a new job-protect civil liberties. He said that protecting the rights of a "protesting and insecure" people was a matter close to his heart. > Frank D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy's successor as Governor of Michigan, last week asked his legislature to outlaw sit-down strikes, of which his predecessor had plenty...
...provisions against Politics-in-Relief, he added a clause making it illegal for any person to solicit campaign money from any Government employe, local, State or Federal, any part of whose pay comes from a Congressional appropriation. This was in memory of the Federal-aid highway men with whom Governor "Happy" Chandler so bitterly fought Mr. Barkley for Kentucky's nomination last summer...
...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...
When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
Before Philosopher James's pacific idea became a military idea in the head of Mr. May, it traveled a long road. Young Mr. Roosevelt as a fledgling New York State Legislator began early to boost conservation. Later as Governor he put 10,000 unemployed on Conservation projects. By the time of his first inaugural in Washington the Jamesian idea of CCC had grown into a definite plan, as he informed Congress in his first message on Unemployment Relief...