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Thus did the Tennessee Legislature take its first decisive step toward removing from office the diffident, mild-mannered, 65-year-old Democrat who succeeded to the Governorship in 1927 upon the death of Austin Peay. An Alabaman by birth, Governor Horton was a village school-teacher who turned to law, practiced in Chattanooga, reached the State Senate just before his elevation. Though not a strong political personality, he was nevertheless elected Governor in 1928, re-elected...
...boasts of 14 election certificates, controls the Shelby County delegation at Nashville (three Senators, eight Representatives). He dictated the elections of the Speakers of the House and of the Senate. Tennessee has no Lieutenant Governor. If Governor Horton were impeached, Boss Crump's Speaker would succeed to the Governorship...
...week-end guests at his Rapidan camp the President last week had Edsel Ford and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico who is now reported to aspire to the Governorship of the Philippines. President Hoover reached the camp just in time to settle down before a big log fire and broadcast a brief speech dedicating Cornell University's War Memorial.* His theme: the patriotism of college men who went...
...conflict in New York. With water power as a prime issue Republicans have wanted to lease State resources on the St. Lawrence for 50 years to private utility companies. Democrats have demanded public development of State property. Time and again this Democratic doctrine helped Alfred Emanuel Smith win the Governorship. Franklin Delano Roosevelt carried it forward as a party policy. Last year Governor Roosevelt secured a truce in the old fight while a special commission of five experts investigated the feasibility of St. Lawrence power developed by the State. In February the Commission brought in its report: State development...
...Republican politicians supported by the Federal Government, backed by the new Negro vote. The New Orleans monument commemorates a fight between the "White League" (Democratic ex-Confederates) and the Republican police on Sept. 14, 1874. The State returned to normal after the election of Francis Tillon Nicholls to the governorship...