Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water-closet scandal was just one splash in a whirlpool of trouble which recently engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
When some people came along with a high-powered new water closet,* Lieutenant Governor Hayes took an interest in the company and presided over sessions at which a bill calling for such equipment in all public places was passed. Mr. Hayes could easily see the merit of the fixture which, when a user rises, snaps its seat back into a recess, scours it with live steam and a scrubbing brush, cools it with a jet of water, snaps it out again for the next patron...
Several legislators who allegedly accepted stock in the water-closet company in return for pushing through a health bill for it were arrested with Lieutenant Governor Hayes on this and other counts. Last month when the trials began Mr. Hayes and 22 others pleaded not guilty. Two other defendants pleaded guilty, one of them Harry Mackenzie,† longtime first lieutenant of Connecticut's late Republican dictator, hard-bitten John Henry Roraback...
...kicked around the laws of economics, British bankers like to think that he has done so under political compulsion, that fundamentally he is a sound financier who may eventually lead Germany back to respectable financial methods: His host last week was his old friend, hoary-bearded Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
Died. Warren T. McCray, 73, banker, stockman, onetime (1921-24) Republican Governor of Indiana; after a heart attack; at Kentland, Ind. Convicted of using the mails to defraud, he spent three years in Atlanta before being paroled in 1927, received a Christmas pardon from President Hoover...