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...November, eleven old governors were re-elected of whom only three (Vermont's Wilson, New Hampshire's Winant, Delaware's Buck) were Republicans.-Of the 24 new ones, 22 were Democrats, two Republicans. In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Virginia the governorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat. Only in Kansas did it pass from a Democrat to a Republican. North Dakota alone managed to change Republican governors without having a Democrat slip...
...states, it appears that in the present election the losers will garner at the most five and at the least three states. The three states which are definitely for Hoover are Maine, which elected a Democratic governor in September, Vermont, and Pennsylvania. Other possibilities are New Hampshire, which reelected Winant, the Republican candidate for governor, and Connecticut, which elected a Democratic governor, Wilbur L. Cross. All of these states are normally Republican states, with the possible exception of Connecticut, and all of them went for Hoover in 1928 by large margins...
...sign hung in front of New Hampshire's executive mansion in Concord read, "Puppies for sale. Mrs. John G. Winant." Breed: West Highland White and Scotch terriers. Puppies available: 60 of both sexes. Price...
...jail for 90 days, but did not impose fine or costs, suspended sentence until the man could harvest his crops. Three days later Judge Oakes sent his driver's license to the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles, his resignation from the bench to Governor John Gilbert Winant. The following day he presided at the trial of a hit-&-run driver. As the trial got under way, a court attendant tiptoed up. whispered to Judge Oakes that an assistant attorney-general of the State wanted...
...mail was a letter from Governor Winant accepting his resignation: "I want you to know I respect your desire to accord special privilege...