Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary expedient could solve Ohio's problem. Only solution in sight is through the passage of enabling legislation by the rural-dominated General Assembly, which would allow Ohio's cities, now legally hog-tied, to raise sufficient taxes for relief. But the chance of Governor Bricker calling a special session this year, thus opening the floodgates to old-age pension bills, and possibly having the State treasury's handsome 1939 surplus swept away, was remote. This was what still kept the gossips gossiping...
...have no rights, recourse to law or protection. Instead of "no punishment without law," Dr. Frank's motto was "no crime without punishment." Besides being a Minister Without Portfolio and Reich's Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Frank is also president of the German Academy of Law and Governor General of the Occupied Territories in Poland. Last week his various duties kept him hopping...
...Back in Cracow, Poland, from where he governs some 15,000,000 Poles,* Governor General Frank received a Russian delegation arriving by special train. Two years ago Dr. Frank called Germany the "protector against Bolshevistic terror" and said that the Germans would have "no dealings with Communism in Moscow or elsewhere." But last week the visiting Bolshevists were treated to a ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans...
...Army, even though he no longer belongs to it, was suggested by the choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and Military Governor of Havana Province as well, Colonel Pedraza was until last week Inspector General of the Cuban Army under Colonel Batista...
Huey Pierce Long did go places. He went to the Governor's Mansion up in Baton Rouge, to the U. S. Senate in Washington, might just possibly have gone to the White House if he had not been shot in his own skyscraper capitol in 1935. Huey never had much use for a free press. He reserved State advertising, State printing for papers that backed his cause-including Louisiana Progress, which he owned himself. Once he tried to tax every daily in Louisiana out of existence, but the U. S. Supreme Court held his act unconstitutional...