Word: governors
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Georgia's legislature snuffled and snapped through its appointed rounds. It really sat up when the word was passed that "Hummon wants this." In just 41 of the 70 days allotted to it, the state's complacent assembly gave crafty, cocky Governor Herman Eugene Talmadge almost everything he wanted. Grumped an editorialist last week in the Hummon-hating Atlanta Journal: "Thank Heaven, I still have my liver and lights." The Atlanta Constitution, somewhat friendlier to Hummon, drew a deep breath and said: "On the whole the legislature did a good...
...killed a bill to take the pillowcase off the face of the Ku Klux Klan. It had extended civil service protection to a number of state boards, all of them manned now by Talmadge men. It had left juicy highway contracts to be farmed out by the governor and kept home rule from the cities...
...accusers of Dr. Mirian Van Waters have dropped their claim that she had forged the signature of former Correction Commissioner J. Paul Doyle on the indenture of a reformatory inmate. The move was taken during yesterday's hearing in Langdell Courtroom before the three-man board appointed by governor Paul A. Dever and headed by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School...
Counsel for Dr. Miriam Van Waters yesterday began the defense of the ousted penologist before Governor Dever's three-member appeals commission sitting in Langdell Hall...
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones last week refused to say how the meeting had gone. But West Indian union leaders voiced the feeling of the natives. "Violence will break out among our people," said one, "if he does not return. Lord Baldwin is a sympathetic governor...