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Behind this homely American trans formation was a homelier story of American politics. When West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
...July 8, 1917, the War Industries Board was set up. This was a great organizing step forward. But the mercurial press, disgusted with the complication of board and bureaus and general fumbling, thoroughly blasted the confused setup. Not until March 4, 1918 did Wilson appoint Baruch chairman of the War Industries Board, or clothe him with Presidential authority. The U.S. had been at war eleven months...
...half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...
...quietly down Texarkana's State Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America, the high command of the Army mourned him most. They knew him best...
...days later the Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors. To many New Yorkers, the board itself, which last year tried to appoint Bertrand Russell as a professor at City College, looked Red. Its chairman is liberal Author-Editor Ordway Tead (Harper). After five hours' debate, the board emerged with a unanimous and unprecedented resolution: "It is the purpose of the Board of Higher Education not to retain as members of the collegiate staffs members of any Communist. Fascist or Nazi group or society, or to retain any individual who, or member of any group which advocates, advises...