Word: governors
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Criswold gained recent fame when he chaired the Governor's Committee which exonerated Dr. Miriam Van Waters...
Beneath sunny Bermuda skies, the ornate coach and two trundled out on the field while the six competing teams stood in Olympiad fashion along the edge of the playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties...
...Frank Costello, who doesn't want anyone to think that he is as influential as everybody says he is. When California's Commission on Organized Crime recently identified him as the probable head of a nationwide slot-machine syndicate, the Tammany judgemaker wrote to Earl Warreri: "Governor, the truth is that I have so little influence . . . that I can't square a traffic ticket for myself...
...sponsored during a long career [16 years] in the legislature." The bill: an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the state public-school system. Other states, such as Illinois and Texas, have ordered investigations of Communist activities in education (TIME, April 4). But last week, with Governor Dewey's signature on Ben Feinberg's bill, New York went even further...
Last week, the house and senate unanimously passed a resolution against Addington and his kind. The resolution, which Governor Beauford Jester promised to sign, "authorized, instructed and empowered" the presidents of state colleges and universities to investigate and expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...