Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
...75th governor of Georgia and the youngest in the U.S., Hummon used the opportunity to shout out the first rebel yell at Harry Truman since the election. "I am proud to say," rasped Hummon, "that [my] administration will throw the full force of your state's governmental machinery behind our Senators and Congressmen in their fight against any anti-Southern measures that may be brought before the next session of Congress...
...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
...Quarter. Politicians and lobbyists are Evjue's prime targets. The Times keeps a detective's eye on all officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...