Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When investigators from WPA and the Department of Justice sped to Baton Rouge, Dick Leche welcomed them on his sickbed, where arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...
Thirty-three years later Governor Frank Murphy ran for re-election in Michigan; Thomas Edmund Dewey tried for the Governorship of New York. Both lost. But neither became inactive...
...Arthur Seyss-Inquart is still, technically, provincial Governor of Austria, but is ranked by Josef Bürckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria, who has been given the job of Nazifying the gay Viennese. Seyss-Inquart's governorship is soon...
...Milford, Kans. and in headphone days Dr. Brinkley began to operate a radio station called KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). In 1930 the Kansas Medical Board revoked his medical license for "unprofessional conduct," and the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his broadcasting license. Undaunted, Brinkley leaped into the Governorship campaign on a "vindication ticket," polling 183,000 votes on a write-in ballot. In 1932 and 1934 he again aspired to the Governorship, but was badly beaten both times by Alf Landon...
This reminded Michiganders that in November they had for the seventh time elected to the Lieutenant Governorship Oldster Luren Dudley Dickinson, a Republican with a strong rural and prohibitionist following. When they went to look for Lieut. Governor Dickinson, who will be 80 next month, they found him also bedded with influenza, at his farm near Charlotte. So was his wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could...