Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys of England's Eton, Headmaster Claude Aurelius Elliott was known as the Emperor. The son of a onetime lieutenant governor of Bengal, he seldom ventured too near his own little subjects; some boys went several years without ever meeting him at all. The Emperor was never ruffled when parents wondered why he paid no attention to their boy. "Unless he is a very outstanding figure in school life," he would tell them, "you can be glad I haven...
...night in September a fiery cross was burned on the lawn of the old governor's mansion of Milledgeville, Ga. (pop. 6,800), once the capital of the state. In the mansion lives President Guy Wells of the Georgia State College for Women, where a group of Negro college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly...
...Copies. As the electors gathered around a table in the governor's reception room, they discovered that only 13 had come to the meeting. This meant that two substitutes had to be rounded up. That done, all 15 had to be sworn in. After that, they elected a chairman, and jostled into a group to be photographed...
...every state, similar groups of electors gathered for similar ceremonies. In New York-as in other states which the G.O.P. carried-they were Republicans. New York's electors, who also posed for an official photograph, got a free lunch, free fountain pens and a chance to meet Governor Thomas E. Dewey.* In Democratic Tennessee there was a mild flurry of excitement. An elector named Preston Parks carried out a vow-and exercised his constitutional right-to vote for the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman...
Control mechanisms are not new. The governor, which regulates steam engines, was invented by James Watt in 1788. The familiar thermostat has been around for decades. Both these are true control mechanisms. They accept information and directives and act upon them...