Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor-solid, persevering, long-mustached Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt of Arizona who lately failed of reelection for his seventh term (TIME, Nov. 12) walked quietly down the Capitol steps. He explained that the blow he had received was "inadvertently brought about when State Senator Colter moved his arms in argument...
Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...
...Arizonans are bitter-enders. The Hunt-Colter fracas last week was only a minor skirmish on one side of the lines that will join battle again in Washington this winter...
...Governor Hunt is known as a great humanitarian. As governor he has never signed the death warrant of any fellow human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...Governor Hunt has been absolutely honest. I put this statement in a paragraph by itself for it is outstanding. In all the six terms as Governor, there has never been the least suspicion ever breathed against Hunt in this connection...