Word: jess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...departure of Governor Earl Warren from the California political landscape two months ago to become U.S. Chief Justice opened up three big California questions: 1) What kind of governor would Warren's successor, Goodwin Jess Knight, make? 2) Would the tightly knit band of Warrenites who had run the state for ten years continue to run California Republicanism? 3) Would the G.O.P. be able to stay in power in the absence of Warren's bipartisan appeal...
...Margaret Harpstrite, a conciliation commissioner in Los Angeles children's court, happened to tell her boss, Judge Georgia Bullock, that an interesting case was on the docket: Actress Susan Hay ward and her estranged husband Jess Barker were coming in to talk over the custody of their children. "Fine," said motherly Judge Bullock. "Let me know when they come...
...picture," Mrs. Harpstrite cried, "so let her take the case herself. I won't hear it." Susan tried to calm the conciliator by stroking her hair and saying, "You take the case. I like you" But Conciliator Harpstrite would not be conciliated. Susan and Jess trooped downstairs to Judge Bullock's chambers, trailed by their lawyers...
...chambers. "I'm busy," snapped the judge. They climbed back upstairs again. They consoled Mrs. Harpstrite. Finally, "for the good of the court," she dried her eyes, sighed and went to work. It was decided that Susan could have her children during the week and that Jess could have them over weekends...
When Earl Warren boarded an airliner and took off for Washington this week, a whole political era in California went with him. The independent Warren, who had built his political power on bipartisan support, turned the governorship over to Goodwin Jess Knight, a regular, conservative, organization Republican. The new governor, a back-thumping, bouncing lawyer of 56 who has served seven years as lieutenant governor, could not hope to win the Democrats who supported Warren. But the day Warren departed was a good day for "Goody" Knight. It meant that he will be running for governor next year...