Word: governor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble," one student said last night, "is that Republicans leaders don't have big enough families. Tom Dewey doesn't even have one daughter. Maybe Governor Warren's daughter should have been picked...
Among previous Godkin Lectures have been Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsylvania; Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks of New York City; Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago; and Australian economist D. B. Copeland...
...little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
...money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...
...Governor Smith in 1923, when repealing New York's anti-sedition statutes which required loyalty oaths, said the laws "were repugnant to the fundamentals of American democracy...