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Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, now 37, was a free man again last week. Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refused to extradite him to Alabama, where Patterson and eight other Negroes were arrested 17 years ago on a flimsy rape charge. After that, a federal judge dismissed a fugitive warrant against him for breaking out of an Alabama jail...
...Michigan, young (39) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, determined to succeed himself, was mixing with the common folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced the polka with the Poles in Hamtramck, the czardas with the Hungarians in Ecorse. The Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern...
Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams was momentarily startled when he arrived at Boysville school in Michigan for a Christmas party. A group of youths hurriedly lined up to greet him. They carried placards which were supposed to spell out H-E-L-L-O GOVERNOR. In the confusion one of the boys ran to the wrong place in line. The placards spelled out O-H-E-L-L GOVERNOR...
...president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
...Mennen Williams, who beat out Republican incumbent Kim Sigler last year for the governorship of Michigan, got powerful support from organized labor in his drive for election...