Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...
...Dour, GOP-Hopeful George David Aiken, Governor of Vermont, irked by pleas of pressure groups to "proclaim" special days and weeks for the promotion ot worthy causes and foods, issued a proclamation ending all such proclamations...
...citizens generally were surprised to hear of a still darker horse for 1940, little-known Francis Parnell Murphy, Governor of New Hampshire, latest GOP-Hopeful. Tax-cutting, budget-slashing Governor Murphy, Irish, Catholic, balding, is part owner of an eight-factory shoe company which makes 43,000 pairs of shoes daily, has long watched with interest the 1940 efforts of his predecessor, now Senator, GOP-Hopeful Henry Styles Bridges...
...Hopeless Julius Peter Heil, Governor of Wisconsin, blamed the debacle of the Wisconsin Legislature (which sat 269 days, passed no bill to meet the State's $21,000,000 deficit) squarely on "the lure of wine, women and song." Julius the Just, as he was called (before he took office January 2), said he now favored legislation which would "do away with the night work of lobbyists, both men and women, in Madison [State capital] hotels...
Bernadotte served for a time as the Governor of captured Hanover in Germany and buttered up influential Swedish officers taken prisoner during Napoleon's campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...