Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carryon luggage only," was the order from Governor Jerry Brown's office in Sacramento to the dozen or so reporters, including TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, who followed him eastward last week. "The Governor does not like to wait...
...legislators with large teenage constituencies have warned that raising the drinking age at midnight on April 1 would encourage last-minute parties, especially since March 31 is a Saturday. State Rep. William G. Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He recommended allowing the usual 90-day grace period because students would be out of school when the law goes into effect and therefore less likely to protest...
When former Governor Michael S. Dukakis went shopping for a State Ethics Commission last fall, Harvard Law professor James Vorenberg '49, of Watergate prosecution fame, immediately came to mind...
Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and the governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He said he believes high school and college students would be less likely to protest the drinking age hike in June, when they are not in school...
...past few weeks, California Governor Jerry Brown has phoned five members of TIME'S Board of Economists. Why, he asked, did they oppose his call for a constitutional convention to devise an amendment that would force Congress to balance the budget? Recalls one of the economists: "When you say to him, 'Look, it just doesn't make a damn bit of sense,' his comeback is, 'Yes, but I want some amendment in the Constitution that reflects fiscal responsibility.' " The California legislature, by a vote of 12 to 8 in its ways and means committee...