Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in Jan. 23 TIME arouses my desire for expression. Five women visit Governor Lehman. The poor boys never had a chance. "Poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor." Shades of Theodore Dreiser! If man enjoys free will, he is a responsible being. He knows what he is doing and does it anyway. He is a double menace to society-in plan and in deed. Hang him, If man does not enjoy free will, he is not responsible. He is then a monster-a product of a Frankenstein civilization. Destroy him-before he breeds...
...State House for a hearing before the Governor last week went Mr. Reardon and his attorney...
...balloon-chinned James G. Reardon, 37. In 1935 he was superintendent of schools in Adams, Mass. (pop. 12,697). Then famed old Education Commissioner Payson Smith, who had served with distinction for 18 years, was ousted after he had refused to give jobs to friends of newly-elected Governor James Michael Curley. Governor Curley asked Louis Joseph Gallagher, president of Boston College (Roman Catholic) to suggest a bright young Catholic for Commissioner. Dr. Gallagher chose Mr. Reardon, who had twice flunked State examinations for a superintendent's license...
...George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon's resignation. His charge: "You are incompetent and unfit...
...last fall, said he, Governor Charles Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...