Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birth and breeding made Paul Vories McNutt an autocrat, the Democratic voters of Indiana made him Governor and, last fortnight, the State Legislature made him a 50% dictator. To this tall, handsome young man with his shock of white hair and his bristling black eyebrows went a grant of executive power over Indiana unmatched in its history. Well might the other 47 governors of the U.S. envy the supremacy of Paul McNutt...
...Indiana's Governor McNutt signed a one-year moratorium whereby no property will be sold for back taxes. ¶ Iowa's Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never...
Indiana. American Legion bands were loudly present when Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, 41, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the Legion, took office at Indianapolis. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), grey-haired, autocratic Governor McNutt has an ambitious eye on the White House. A liberal, he favors a state income tax. repeal of the Indiana Dry Law, abolition of the Public Service Commission. Author Meredith Nicholson stagemanaged his outdoor inaugural...
...Indiana Democrats elected Paul Vories McNutt Governor by a plurality of 188,642, Frederick Van Nuys Senator by 208,118, won all twelve seats in the House of Representatives, carried the Assembly (91-to-9) and State Senate...
Indiana. Republican Raymond Springer rode circus elephants in an effort to be Governor. But Democratic Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) Commander of the American Legion, rode the Roosevelt wave, left him far behind. Ohio. Democratic Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry...