Word: mckibbin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home. There he was introduced to tall (6 ft. 4), heavy (225 lb.), white-maned George Baldwin McKibbin, State Director of Finance. It was the first time the two had met. Mr. Faherty was politely told that he was being replaced by Mr. McKibbin. (There had, in the meantime, been an all-important telephone call to Colonel McCormick, who apparently approved.) Said George McKibbin later: "Mr. Faherty was a perfect...