Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard 5, Governor Dummer...
...pool player, asked suddenly: "Who's behind the eight-ball?" The player turned around in annoyance, stifled a curse just in time as he recognized the man in the tan fishing cap and sunglasses. "Go ahead with your game," grinned the President. Next week Washington's ex-Governor Mon Wallgren would be arriving, Harry Truman promised, "and I'm going to bring him over and have him show you fellows how to play...
This week, the man who, in his years in the East Block, had made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...
...favor of the defendants' plea for new trial, and by Northeastern's Dean Wigmore for the sustainment of the verdict. The official part included a series of motions for new trial, all of which were denied, and a final petition for executive clemency which was also denied by Governor Fuller and his Advisory Committee...
...view that two innocent and friendless men were being railroaded to the electric chair because their radical views conflicted with the conservative temper of the community. A notable exception to this rule was Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. As the dominant member of the three-man committee which Governor Fuller appointed to investigate the affair, his behavior at this time did not come up to his general reputation for fairness and lofty motives. There is reason to believe that he wrote his committee's report some time before it had completed its hearings...