Word: gov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much the President could help Guy Gillette was problematical. A recent Des Moines Register and Tribune poll indicated that, if the election were held now, Guy Gillette would be swamped by 220,000 by Iowa's vote-getting Gov. Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. But the President is straining hard to have a united Democratic Party, apparently behind himself...
...Tuesday, unheralded, the girls returned. The Supply officers on the campus noted the arrival with pleasure. But in Cambridge, only the cognoscenti who had been in correspondence with the fair departed observed the fact. All the other students just grimaced at the Cliffedweller who sat across the aisle in Gov...
...Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks. He appointed a committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews to advise him on the problem. And when PM gleefully referred to Boston as a city "where the people talk only to Beichman but Beichman can't talk to the Gov.," fair-minded Governor Saltonstall backtracked some more. He granted Reporter Beichman a 15-minute interview which began with a "Glad to see you," and included the admission "I had a rude awakening on Monday...
...bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment man was going to shoot their cows...
...nice girl and write soon and I'd suggest that you begin putting new stamps on the envelope ... the Gov't will be getting sore...