Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sworn in by Chief Justice Cureton of the State Supreme Court, Governor O'Daniel made a grave face. Said the showman Governor: "I pray that glamor and color will be eliminated from our legislative session and that seriousness and dignity will reign supreme...
Next day the Governor appeared before the Legislature to tell how he proposed 1) to reduce his State's $20,000,000 deficit, and 2) redeem his campaign pledge to provide 830 monthly pensions for Texas' needy old folks. Stony-faced sat the legislators as he began reading his message, which he had typed out sitting on an apple box in his dismantled house while the O'Daniel family moved into the Governor's mansion...
...present ad valorem tax in favor of a 1.6% tax on "transactions," a transaction being grandly defined as "any dealing of any kind whatsoever between two or more persons." Such a tax, replacing the State's present ad valorem tax, would net $25,000,000 annually, thought the Governor, to help pay for State old age pensions up to $15 a month (another $15 to come from the Federal Government...
...Governor seemed hazy on details, but it appeared that his pyramided sales tax* would have to be paid at least three times on a sack of flour, by manufacturer, jobber, retailer. Its other complexities he suggested when he proposed some exemptions : salaries, wages, professional fees (where it would be an additional income tax), interstate transactions, first sale by producer of agricultural and livestock products, street car fares up to 10?, street sales of newspapers, charitable and church transactions...
...William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years...