Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME was reporting, not condoning; agrees with Maine's ex-Governor Hildreth that live cigarette butts are not amusing playthings...
...political miracle that he had held on as long as he had. He had not elected a Democratic U.S. Senator in New Jersey since 1936, he had not elected a governor since 1941. He was still a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but his once powerful voice in national councils had faded. He could no longer guarantee to deliver the whole of New Jersey; only Hudson County remained in his clutch, and it was slipping from...
...situation changed abruptly. In the turbulent presidential election, Governor Getulio Vargas of Rio Grande do Sul was defeated by Julio Prestes, a protégé of the incumbent President, bumbling, liberal Washington Luiz. Flanked by fellow gaúcho Oswaldo Aranha and the swashbuckling General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, Vargas marched triumphantly on Rio. The army-including Lieut. Colonel Eurico Caspar Dutra-recognized the popular strength of Vargas' movement and backed...
There was one man last week who did not share in the high hopes for a lasting settlement. In his pleasant brick villa near Leiden, lean Bertho van Suchtelen liked to dream of the old days when he was governor of Sumatra East Coast-days to him of peace and order in the East Indies under the good Queen's kindly rule. When The Netherlands' Queen Mother Emma died, van Suchtelen had remained for a full hour before her wreathed picture in rigid mourning pose...
...Alexander C. Nagle, president of Manhattan's First National Bank; George A. Sloan, publisher of the Southern Agriculturist; William A. Irvin, ex-president of U.S. Steel; Counsel Nathan L. Miller, onetime governor of New York; Chairman Olds; President Fairless...