Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following vote-fraud charges by Governor-reject Tom Dewey during the campaign, Governor-re-elect Lehman of New York ordered a special grand-jury investigation of balloting in Albany County-the one upstate county carried by Mr. Lehman...
...Dewey charged that the county's registration of 82,000 was larger than its adult population. The total votes for Governor last fortnight amounted to 94% of this registration and Mr. Lehman's plurality was more than 20,000. Albany County politics are administered by the Democratic brother bosses, Daniel P. and Edward J. O'Connell...
Their own candidate for Congress was Charles Roxborough, Negro, brother of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis' comanager, John Roxborough. Governor Frank Murphy thought well enough of Dr. Ten to be photographed during the campaign handshaking...
...elevated one of the toughest towns in North America "to a state of almost pristine virtue" by chasing out its crooks, grafters, gamblers, racketeers. But during his second term, in 1932, he and his police chief were convicted of conspiring to permit the operation of bawdy houses. Democratic Governor William Comstock pardoned him after he had served eight months and eleven days of a 3½-to-5-year sentence, saying he was "more sinned against than sinning." He barely missed re-election while under sentence, and again while in jail in 1934. He came back strong...
...work of "appeasement" in general. In so doing he revealed what may yet prove to be the most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families to follow if the experiment succeeded...