Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than two thirds of the states made ready to reinstate their Governors or to inaugurate new ones. From New Year's day to January 15 inaugural ceremonies were to be consummated in 33 state capitols...
Vermont. North-and-south across Vermont run the Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a "rule of the mountain," which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime "mountain rule" was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, "logical" candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME...
Texas. Red haired, dry-minded re-elected Governor Dan Moody of Texas, whose state voted for Hoover, made a post-election statement blaming the "alcoholism" of Democratic National Chairman John J. Raskob...
...slack is work that even employed miners earn no more than the 29 shillings weekly ($7) which is paid by the State as a "dole" to the unemployed. The wage paid is 8 shillings per day ($1.92), but even men nominally "employed" are seldom given work more than three days a week...
...contributions to relieve the miners.* Since His Royal Highness spoke more than ?320,000 ($1,555,000) directly elicited by his words has poured in. For every pound Sterling contributed the Treasury stands pledged by Parliament to contribute a matching pound. Even with all this stop-gap and state charity, however, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seems impotent to devise a constructive scheme which will really stem the tide of unemployment...