Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into this sorry mess stepped Michigan's senile, godly, sometimes cunning Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped...
...letting in a little outside air on the stale quarrel, Governor Dickinson's interference had some good effect on both sides. At a later get-together with Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey, C. L O.'s Frankensteen backslapped Chrysler's Weckler, who beamed right back at Mr. Frankensteen. They had agreed on some minor provisions for a new bargaining contract but had yet to settle their prime differences: 1) whether the management alone should decide how hard & fast union men shall work, and 2) whether union men shall have first call on Chrysler jobs...
...continued leading her conspicuous life, apparently unafraid. The French knew she was spying but could pin nothing on her. They decided to deport her, whereat she broke down and offered to spy for France. They sent her to Belgium to work on General Moritz von Bissing, the German military governor. She proceeded from there to London where she told the British Intelligence Service she was in France's pay to spy on Britain. The B. I. S. advised her to stop, let her go to Spain, where she was soon seen again in the company of German agents. They...
...Governor Duplessis-Bochard of Trois Rivieres, Canada, sortied too far from his stockade and lost his scalp to Iroquois. Last week one of the indiscreet Governor's most indiscreet descendants, another restless inhabitant of Trois Riviéres, Quebec's Conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis, lost his political scalp in an overwhelming rout...
Warren K. Billings (of Mooney & Billings), whose life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing was commuted fortnight ago by Governor Culbert L. Olson, last week tried to get married to Josephine Rudolph, a WPA timekeeper. Then he discovered that, unless his civil rights are restored by a full pardon, marriage is something he cannot enjoy...