Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
From Lodge's own Class of 1924, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth reunion, come the Rev. Russell Sturgis Hubbard, Episcopal bishop of Detroit; Charles Poletti, former lieutenant governor of New York; Judge Peter Woodbury of the United States Court of Appeals; novelists Oliver LaFarge and F. Van Wyck Mason; Editor William L. White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette; and Earl L. Brown of Life Magazine...
Nebraska became the first state to abolish rent ceilings under the new federal rent-control law. The one-house legislature last week passed the law over the veto of Governor Val Peterson, who was against rent control too, but wanted it to last until April i, 1950 to avoid the hardship of rent boosts and evictions during the rugged Nebraska winter. The new law left landlords free to charge whatever rents they please after Nov. i for the 91,000 houses and apartments in Nebraska that are now under federal controls...
...With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the argument off the floor, at least until next year...
Badge of Shame. Jamaicans regard it as a badge of their island's industrial shame that cement must be imported from England. Rich in limestone and gypsum, Jamaica has no cement plant. Jamaica's governor, Sir John Huggins, turned for help to World Commerce Corp.'s Sir William Stephenson, who winters in Jamaica...