Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaches on a train from New York City to Albany last week rode five despairing, middle-aged women put aboard by a noisy, demonstrative crowd of friends. In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking...
This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
Horrified businessmen, raised on the tradition of free trade within the Empire at any rate, attended a mass meeting, appealed to Governor-General Viscount Galway to nullify the plan on grounds of unconstitutionally. Prime Minister Savage thought that over (remembering his comfortable Parliament plurality; Laborites: 54, Conservatives: 24) and then announced: "If traders petition the Governor-General on the ground that we have no authority to control trade, we will soon obtain the necessary authority...
...after his retirement from office, Maryland's fat former Governor, Republican Harry Whinna Nice, gloatingly sent to his successor, Democrat Herbert O'Conor, a package of headache powders...
Clarioned Governor General Lord Gowrie: "If scientists and laymen carry from the conference a determination that they will be masters, not servants of science, they will have made a valuable contribution to the cause of civilization and world peace...