Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility...
...formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit went wise, placid Phil Murray, and into private conference with Chrysler...
Meanwhile, in ironic contrast, Cleveland's businesses were booming towards 1929 levels. Yet the city could not tax to raise funds for relief without empowering legislation from the State General Assembly. And Governor John W. Bricker refused to convene the Assembly...
...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
After the Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...