Word: governors
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Should the death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday be an occasion for Americans to lower their flags as a gesture of patriotic mourning? Few would say so, but New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. thinks otherwise. Last week, as he has in two previous Holy Weeks, Thomson ordered all flags on public buildings lowered as a sign of recognition that "the moral grandeur and strength of Christianity [is] the bulwark against the forces of destructive ideologies...
...state of Maryland has long believed $25,000 a year in salary was plenty for its Governors (before 1967, they got only $15,000). Though the Lieutenant Governor, attorney general and comptroller have all been getting $44,856, the state seemed to feel that the Governor would somehow be demeaned if he got a similar stipend...
...counsel for a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education. But come November, Peck's good boy hopes to win a seat in Congress from his home state of California. When he needs counsel, the aspiring politician huddles with a formidable pair of campaign cochairmen: Father Gregory and former California Governor Pat Brown...
...what has Finch done for the poor people of the state as their governor? He has channeled almost all of his energy into a campaign to force his gubernatorial succession bill through the legislature, and has pressed for a uniform $20 car tag bill (which ironically would help wealthy people with expensive cars more than anyone else). He has replaced competant state employees with his political hacks. He has used federal funds intended for social development programs to expand his personal staff. The list could...
...school English teachers cringe in disbelief"; they controvert the facts and convolute the issues. The "elocution is egregious," and the "underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious," (my emphasis added to Emmerich's observations), but oration can be the same as rhetoric, which is 90 per cent of Governor Finch...