Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wells & Chains. "I wouldn't," beefy bachelor Baldwin once said in explanation of his single state, "bring a child into a capitalist world, and I like children, too." As Governor of the West Indies' Leeward Islands (pop. 109,000), the pipe-smoking scion of the pipe-smoking symbol of the Conservative Party seemed determined to erase all trace of capitalism from his Caribbean domain...
...fine. He plumped for unemployment insurance, hospitals and new industries. He dug deep into his own pocket to provide schooling for native children, and spent ?150 ($600) to bring a water-diviner from Jamaica to find wells on the parched islands. He told the Antigua legislature: "Being the only governor you've had who's been in prison [he was twice captured, once by the Turks and once by the Bolsheviks, while fighting as a volunteer for the Armenians in 1921], I naturally take an interest in that unfortunately necessary institution. Having worn chains myself, I have...
...There was little of the excitement at yesterday's session, conducted before Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School and Governor Dever's special commission, that marked the hearing earlier in the month held by Commissioner of Correction Elliott E. McDowell. McDowell fired Dr. Van Waters on January...
...Miriam Van Waters' fight for reinstatement as head of the State Reformatory for Woman moves to Harvard today. Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School, head of Governor Paul A. Dever's special commission on the Van Waters case, announced yesterday that the site of the hearings has been switched from the State House to Langdell Hall...
...orange juice was sent gratis to the freshman class by the governor of Florida, Fuller Warren...