Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile drive from Boonville, Mo. to Jefferson City. After he got to town, tall, grey-haired Attorney John Windsor decided to put off his tryst with history as long as possible. For a while he lounged in the lobby of the Governor Hotel. Then he went over to the Missouri and dropped in on the Rotary luncheon. Finally, with the air of a man who has been drafted for a patriotic pageant, he went off to the state capitol to help elect the President of the United States...
...Hamp Kendall, 71, of Caldwell County, N.C., who was mistakenly convicted of murder 42 years ago and served more than nine years before the mistake was discovered, wrote to Governor R. Gregg Cherry to complain of the legend on his "victim's" tombstone, which read: "Lawrence Nelson, robbed and murdered by Hamp Kendall." Said Kendall: "No damned man that is innocent would stand under this slanderous tombstone scandal right where he is trying to make an honest living." The Governor was sympathetic, but said he was powerless...
...paid 300 pesos ($90) a month. He picked up another 900 pesos as lawyer for the railway workers' unions. Colonel Peron, as Secretary of Labor & Social Welfare, hired Bramuglia as an adviser. Soon he was deep in poli tics. In 1945, he landed in the fat post of Governor of Buenos Aires. The next year, when Peron became President, he made Juan Bramuglia his Foreign Minister...
...scheduled to face a firing squad, the Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed...
...begetter of Friendship Trains, Drew Pearson has had more drawn-out feuds than an Irishman could shake a shillelagh at. The loudest was the one with Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, which started when Tydings called for. a Senate investigation of father Paul Pearson's regime as governor of the Virgin Islands...