Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Montana's grim-jawed old Senator Tom Walsh, newly wed, died just before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when...
Having come within a squeak of being elected Governor of New York this month by asserting that New York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...
...Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, an off-&-on Republican, issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
...wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion...