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...Catholic-the first Catholic governor in the 35 years of U. S. occupation. There their information stopped. What they did not realize was that Governor Gore, prominent Florida Democrat publisher of newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Deland, and Daytona Beach had thumped loudly for Roosevelt, was now picking his political plum. Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast a plea to Puerto Ricans for cooperation. Despite a downpour of rain there was a crowd waiting to welcome him, escort...
...good men. So thought many a Democratic Congressman who for three months had obediently taken his legislative orders from President Roosevelt in the expectation of patronage rewards at the session's end. Waiting to be distributed were thousands upon thousands of jobs ripening on the Administration's plum tree since March 4. New legislation had created thousands more. Because most of these new emergency jobs were not put under civil service, the National Civil Service Reform League last week loudly warned against the rush for "spoils." Some people even began to forecast "corruption." Postmaster General Farley had unsuccessfully...
Governor of Hawaii. Rare, too. is the U. S. citizen who can get that chance under existing law which requires the territorial Governor to be an actual resident of the islands. Last week President Roosevelt asked Congress to change the law and make this picturesque plum available to nonresidents. Said he in a special message: "In making my choice I should like to be free to pick from the islands themselves or from the entire United States the best man for this post...
...International Flower Show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, quietly watching record crowds mill around the long tables of orchid exhibits. He watched the orchids, bright and delicate, crumple slowly after four days in the crowd's breath. Now & then he eyed particularly a spray of big plum-striped orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best...
...plumpest diplomatic plum, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed last week about to drop into the dapper lap of Robert Worth Bingham, 61, wealthy Louisville, Ky. publisher. Born and educated in North Carolina, Mr. Bingham crossed the mountains to Kentucky to seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died...