Word: nowicki
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Listing the occasions on which Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy has been absent from the State, Lieut. Governor Leo J. Nowicki invoked an 1840 statute, asked the State auditor to pay him the Governor's salary for the days in question. Figuring that he had been away 32 days at $13.88 a day,* nettled Governor Murphy sent the auditor his check for $444.42. Lieut. Governor Nowicki (who has been earning $200 a week since July as a bankruptcy trustee) thereupon claimed the Governor's salary not for 32 days but for 70, returned his own check...