Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the end. Governor Turner sold him for slaughter. Last week Rupert traveled his last mile to the Iowa Packing Co. His carcass (which had once fetched $38,000 on the hoof) brought $228 at 16? a pound. Most of Rupert would be ground into bologna...
...leaders, the A.M.A. finally swung into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that great patent-medicine man . . . apparently is grimly determined to bring socialized...
...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
Membership in the Legal Aid Bureau is an honor at the Law School second only to a post on the Law Review. Paul V. McNutt, ex-governor of Indiana and former High Commissioner of the Philippines and Richird B. Wigglesworth '12, one time Congressional leader, were once members of the Bureau...