Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band...
...third youngest State,* are still green in the ways of dignified government. Last week, for the second time in six years, they removed their Governor. This time it was Henry Simpson Johnston, impeached and convicted by the State Legislature for "general incompetence" (TIME, Jan. 28 et ante). Lieut. Gov. William J. Holloway, taking the oath as the new Governor, invoked "the blessings and guidance of Almighty God" to assist him. Citizens of the older States sympathized with his sentiments. The charge of "general incompetence" seemed as much of a commentary on the people he had to govern as upon...
...failure is a story of petty Louisiana politics. Each bidder for the bridge franchise secured the services of a former Governor as counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long the state...
...stating with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
...only $1 left, but I was determined to get back to New Orleans and the comforts of my home as quickly as possible. So I borrowed $6 from a jailer and arrived back in New Orleans Saturday forenoon, just in time to read that Gov. Long had withdrawn his reprieve, and that there might be a hanging...