Word: dickinson
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Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts...
...every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
Others who attended the Governors' Conference festivities marveled at Governor Dickinson. Said Governor Cochran of Nebraska: "Nobody saw what Dickinson says he saw. There weren't any wild parties...
...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...
Pious Luren Dudley Dickinson has not let this kind of thing bother him at all. Says he: "Everybody is so kind to me. They won't let me do anything that would tax my strength. Why, I've gained twelve pounds since I took office...