Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt should have remained in shocked silence. By stating she supported Al Smith in his every campaign she does not answer the cardinal's questions . . . Had she not supported Governor Smith she would have been a traitor, not only to the Democratic Party, but to her husband as well...
India celebrated the anniversary of independence by announcing new and stricter austerity measures. India is still basically a hungry land; the government has launched a drive to raise more food. To highlight the food drive, plows ripped through New Delhi's viceregal golf course. Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, no golfer himself, posed behind a team of bullocks...
Last January when energetic, 37-year-old Sidney McMath became Arkansas' governor, he decided to do something about it, called his good friend and former school chum, Alfred Bryan Bonds Jr., home from his job as training director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to help out as State Education Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something...
Bonds thought the caravan might be the answer. For the past week, he and Governor McMath have spelled each other giving pep talks to local school boards and citizens, pleading for higher taxes, better wages for teachers, adequate facilities for Negro and white children...
Last week Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson signed a bill permitting night thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this...