Word: governors
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...firm. The public first heard of him in 1905. Appointed a special counsel, he investigated a scandalous gas monopoly and won a consequential cut in rates. He also uncovered a venal conspiracy between city officials and New York insurance firms. On the strength of these crusades, he was elected governor of New York over the Democratic nominee, William Randolph Hearst...
...reform governor who despised ward politics, he exasperated the politicians, who dubbed him "Charles the Baptist." Nevertheless, he was reelected. Taft appointed him to the Supreme Court (where he stayed until his unsuccessful race for the presidency); Harding made him his Secretary of State...
...news of ex-Governor Tugwell, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH'S LAST GATE HIS GREATEST. The News...
Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...