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Since his father entered the White House 26-year-old Son James has become a political personage in Massachusetts where he sells insurance. He is called the "Crown Prince," is supposed to aspire to the Governorship. He has set himself up as an important arbiter of Federal patronage for the State. Said he in a statement last month: "As you know. I am probably closest by blood and affection to the man who makes the appointments. I have an interest in knowing that the men who are appointed will measure up to a fair standard of loyalty to the President...
...favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save the bother of impeachments. In Massachusetts onetime Governor Fuller announced he would run against Lieutenant Governor Bacon for the Governorship because Mr. Bacon was a Morgan insider...
Spain's Ambassador protested continuously to Charles II about Morgan's pillaging progress; finally he was recalled to England to stand trial (1672). His foregone acquittal brought him a knighthood and the Lieutenant-Governorship of Jamaica. During his three terms as Governor he turned on his old cronies, the buccaneers, with a fierce, forgetful hand. Once he wined and dined 17 of them, led them on to talk dangerously of what they had done, had them arrested as they left, hanged them all next day. Said he: "I abhor bloodshed, and I am greatly dissatisfied that...
...Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would have bet any amount of it all on the landing of a fly on a lump of sugar. He went to the Senate on the appointment of a man he had fought for the Governorship. President Cleveland preferred him to Senator Leland Stanford. (After his death Phoebe Apperson Hearst did almost as much for the University of California as the Stanfords did for their private university...
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...