Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Tortoise Taft slogged quietly along under the Southern sun. Prostrate in his wake lay the Republican delegations from at least seven Southern (and wholly Democratic) States; four more were ready to flop his way. With these 182 votes, plus Ohio's 52, plus at least 100 miscellaneous pledges, Tortoise Taft appeared to have about 300 ballots-nearly a solid third of the G. O. P.'s 1,000 convention votes. Mr. Dewey had only New York's 92-and a fourth of these were still uncertain...
...mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...
What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
Snapped Governor Bricker, who has dark-horse aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination: "The Federal authorities . . . seem more interested in the politics of the affair than in helping the needy. . . . The lurid catch phrases which are being used by political opponents are no more applicable in Ohio than in any other State...
Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...