Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick of big, expensive New York City last fortnight when his boast of a $325,000,000 saving turned out, due to an error in adding, to be $200,000,000 too big (TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit...
...barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, who says he likes his rock-ribbed home, share their felicity virtually alone...
Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee...
...Reactionary." The others did not need to. Among them: George Ephraim Sokolsky; Mark Sullivan; Editor Henry Justin Allen of the Topeka State Journal; handsome Dr. Ruth Alexander, who has been touring the U. S. publicizing religion as a prop for capitalism (TIME, Dec. 19); and two Methodists, onetime Governor Arthur Hyde of Missouri and Chicago Banker Wilbur Helm, who four years ago formed the Conference of Methodist Laymen to drum "radicals" out of key posts in their church (TIME, Sept...
Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...