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Word: governors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshmen won three in a row, scoring six goals and limiting the opposition to three tallies. In the third game, however, Poto Baker, right Inside, collided with a member of the Governor Dummer team and Injured his arm, relegating himself to the sidelines for the remainder of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Under the ordinary rules of politics, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley would have no more chance of re-election in November than of playing halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Protector of the People | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Died. Cecile White Stainback, 55, wife of Hawaii's Governor (since 1942) Ingram Macklin Stainback; after a brain operation; in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Western Hemisphere's biggest railroad* got a new boss last week. To succeed retiring President Robert C. Vaughan, the government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. picked Donald Gordon, 47, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, whose only direct connection with railroading had been as a passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Banker at the Throttle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Banker at the Throttle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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