Word: hoey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors of nine southeastern States (White of Mississippi, Leche of Louisiana, Chandler of Kentucky, Cone of Florida, Browning of Tennessee, Hoey of N. C., Johnston of S. C., Rivers of Georgia and Graves of Alabama 1 year ago banded together in a loosely formed "conference" to attract new industries to the South- principally by advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina...
...Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education by the Federal Government. . . ." Only dissenter was Indiana's Townsend...
...bear" on a leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate Justice Hugo Black (see p. 10). Only Florida's Cone...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
...Tennessee publisher and politician, who was paroled last year after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. (TIME, April 13, 1936); by North Carolina's new Governor Clyde R. Hoey...