Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Il Duce on the farmhouse wall. The farm, valued at $2,250, and the truck must be paid for over a 35-year period. The Government has guaranteed to purchase all the crops. When asked why electric light has not been more widely installed in Libyan villages, Governor General Italo Balbo explained: "The birthrate is always highest where there is no electric light...
Group Health Association, Inc. Last year William F. Penniman, deputy governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who was dismayed at the Board's loss of several hundred thousand dollars annually through sickness of employes, encouraged 1,000 Board workers to join the Group Health Association. Inc. Starting with a $40,000 loan from the Board, G. H. A. established a clinic with laboratory and X-ray departments, hired a staff of physicians, offered government employes complete health service and 21-day hospitalization at rates of $2.20 a month for single persons, $3.30 a month for families...
...Minnesota, where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer Austin Benson has been branded a friend of "Reds" in his campaign for reelection, most of the newspapers have frankly slanted news and headlines to favor his youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator...
Most laudatory passages in "Deadline," however, were from Benson obituary notices which reporters swiped from their publishers' newspaper morgues. Typical hold-for-death quotes from anti-Benson newspapers: "Elmer A. Benson will go down in history as one of Minnesota's outstanding Governors. . . . Governor Benson displayed courage, forcefulness, and never yielded in his fight to aid the common man. . . . Even his enemies called him great...
This week Governor Benson's newshawk friends scored a scoop on their own papers when George W. Kelley, their Duluth cochairman, received the following wire from Franklin Roosevelt: "If the political writers on Minnesota papers are inferring that I have deliberately withheld approval from or disapproved candidacy of your Progressive Governor for reelection, they are of course misinterpreting my attitude. I have repeatedly indicated the high esteem in which I hold Governor Benson...