Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. J. (for Joseph) Melville Broughton, 60, North Carolina's Democratic freshman Senator and onetime governor (1941-45); of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...governor's difficulties is that he cannot help conducting himself as if he were governing Michigan. He had this to say about denazification: "There's a lot of talk about whether Nazis who've been in camps should be able to run for office. I don't know-but prison records aren't always bad politically. I knew in the Polish section in Detroit, if you've been to jail a couple of times, it helps a lot if you're running for office! And, for that matter, look at Curley." The governor...
...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...
...recent hearing before Governor Dever's Commission, however, was the exact reverse of the McDowell proceedings. The board was not only impartial, but two of its members were experienced lawyers. Under the competent hand of Dean Griswold, the irrelevancies and absurdities of Dwyer's case were properly tossed out. As the hearing progressed, the position of the prosecution withered. Nothing remained at the conclusion. Dr. Van Waters was cleared; her accusers were...