Word: governor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a story of propaganda, and of how the three powers in the Commonwealth, the President, the Governor, and "The University", all tried to curry popular favor, and how "The University", of course, outsmarted the others...
...Governor had a big problem of his own: he was a Harvard man, and the common people thought he ate nothing but ambrosia and champagne, and he didn't like this. And he saw that this was an opportunity to show the common people that he had the same middle-class sentimentality that they had, so he edicted in his common-touch manner--"There are some things in life holier than the mundane desires of earth. Sentiment is more noble than stomachly desires. Your Governor realizes this and asks you not to deprive your children of the edifying effect...
...Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with power to issue money, or that this money would be accepted by the State in payment of debt and taxes. What alarmed Mr. Pegler was that the story...
Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...