Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sector of Iran's society is untouched by the Ayatullah's dictates. Mohammed Ali Mohlavi, governor of the central bank, announced that he would look into setting up an Islamic banking structure in which no interest would be charged on loans. Most hotels and restaurants began to conform with a prohibition on alcoholic beverages. X-rated films disappeared from cinemas, and television programs like The Six Million Dol lar Man will no longer be broadcast. A mutton shortage loomed as a result of the Ayatullah's ban on meat imported from Australia and New Zealand. Because...
...former governor of Idaho said right now the division between federal departments and agencies results in the duplication of effort and inefficiency...
...Governors did not take very kindly to Brown. When the Californian made a rhetorical pitch for a balanced budget as "the central issue of our time," Vermont's flinty Republican Governor Richard Snelling snapped back a curt reminder that the Governors' group had had a committee studying that very topic over the past year, that Brown was a member of the committee but had never attended its meetings, that he had not even answered Snelling's letter seeking views on which specific federal programs the states would like to see slashed. Said Snelling: "I think the born...
DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January...
...background. Take this exchange with a Connally-type Texan: " 'Now, Gold. Everybody here is a somebody, and I don't know why you're being so captious about who it is you are. He is the Spade, she is the Widow, I am the Governor and you're the - ' 'Doctor!' yelled Gold in time to ward off a crushing repetition of that denunciatory term...