Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Michiganders, however, are not so sanguine about their Governor's brain-trust, view with alarm many an example of Luren Dickinson's recent statecraft. Since March...
...Vetoed a bill which would have let a legislative committee continue its investigation of some nasty bridge-fund boodle. (Lawyer Boyles got the blame. Protested Mr. Dickinson to carpers: "Why, I didn't know that bill terminated the investigation. Judge Boyles told me to veto...
...spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...
Frustrated civil-service advocates promptly asked Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster in Detroit to declare 1) that "Lieutenant Governor Dickinson" has no legal claim to be Governor, 2) the civil-service wrecker was unconstitutional, illegally signed by a nonexistent Governor. Their grounds: the State constitution provides 1) in the event of the Governor's death or incapacity, the Lieutenant Governor shall serve "until the disability ceases," 2) the Governor shall fill vacated offices by appointment. One William P. Long of Detroit maintains that Luren Dickinson should have taken the gubernatorial office, then ended the "disability" by appointing another...
Looking owlish, Emerson Boyles observed: "Weird. If Dickinson is not Governor...