Word: sawyerism
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...more interested observers than a young politician named Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston across the Savannah River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved...
...last week 61 South Carolina National Guardsmen marched up to the State Office Building in Columbia, trained machine guns on its entrance. Since taking office in January, 38-year-old Governor Johnston had been trying to make good his campaign promises by attempting to withhold Chief Commissioner Sawyer's salary, appointing new members to the Commission, trying to discharge old ones. Each time he had been balked by statutes and injunctions. "A state of rebellion," he now proclaimed, "exists in the Highway Department...
...Robert Somers Brookings H, Donald Albert Crafts, Laurens Davis Dawes, David Clapp Drinkwater, George Thomas Dudman, Benjamin Sturtavant Foss, Jr., Donald Howes Gleason, Richard Lagraze, John Nowell Murphy, Grosvenor Proctor, Franklin Augustus Rooce, Jr., Henry Seabury Parker, Jr., John Faunco Roach, Warren Batcheller Stetson, Richard King Thorndike, Jr., Seton Sawyer Williams, Norman Leslie Yood, and Elwood Dadmun Hoynton...
...George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor...
...dance committees are: Executive Committee, Roy W. Winsauer '36, Edward G. Smith '36, and Henry B. Sawyer Jr. '37. The Financial Committee: Douglas C. Scott '36, Jules Bricken '35, David Macdonald '36, and James C. McNamara Jr. '36. The Management Committee: Branford P. Millar '35, Robert E. Eichler, Jr. '36, Robert J. Gardner-Medwin, sS.A., and James T. Kilbreth...