Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allan Nevins edition of the diaries of James K. Polk, U. S. President, 1845-49 (up to then our youngest President; seven successive terms a Congressman; Speaker of the House; Governor of Tennessee; President at 49) are found the following entries...
...ways are ready next year, the Navy will try them out in such harbors as New York's and Norfolk's, may detail some to the Caribbean. In that case, they will be under the upturned nose of retired Admiral Leahy, now the civilian Governor of Puerto Rico...
...mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...
What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
...Snapped Governor Bricker, who has dark-horse aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination: "The Federal authorities . . . seem more interested in the politics of the affair than in helping the needy. . . . The lurid catch phrases which are being used by political opponents are no more applicable in Ohio than in any other State...