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...least Acting Governor. Disillusioned by Mr. Nudelman many months ago, thrown overboard by his Chicago political sponsors, Messrs. Kelly & Nash, Mr. Stelle had nowhere to go but out. Thinking it over, he decided that his way out would be dramatic. Mr. Stelle announced his candidacy for the Governorship...
...when the war began, a lieutenant of infantry, hospitalized for rheumatism of the joints. He had been born in Bavaria, ninth son of a colonial official whose jobs included the first Governorship of German South West Africa, and had been educated in the cadet college of Karlsruhe. From the hospital, instead of rejoining his regiment, Göring went to the Stenay airdrome near Darmstadt, cheerfully admitted he had deserted and asked to join. the Air Force. He got his pilot's license in the autumn...
Last month he and his wife went to Florida. Scarcely had he left when the smoldering dissension in Illinois Democracy burst out into open dispute between Governor Horner and Lieut. Governor John Stelle, who announced his candidacy for the Governorship at the April 9 primaries, toyed with the idea of seizing immediate power on the ground that Governor Horner was too ill to act. Suit was brought against both the Iroquois League and the Illinoisans, for a fund accounting to members. Last week, when Lyn Smith got back from Florida, he was scheduled to make a deposition in that suit...
Except for a single bulb burning in a downstairs office, the lights went out in the great white Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, the night Sam Jones defeated Earl Long in the primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away small boys who tried to plant anti-Long signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from...
...loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched. And Earl was not much company. He was busy trying to convince Louisiana voters, just before a Democratic run-off primary this week, that that smell of corruption in the air was no reason to turn him out of the governorship and install Lawyer Sam Houston Jones...