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Last January, however, a new Governor took charge of Arkansas. He is Judge Junius Marion Futrell, Democrat, who was born on an Arkansas farm, who walked daily over Arkansas' country roads to get his schooling. Once back in 1913 he, as president pro tem of the State Senate, was acting Governor of Arkansas for a few months and during that time made a record for himself: inaugurated the first State system of roads, pardoned a minimum number of jailbirds, helped out sufferers from the big flood that year. Since then he has been a judge, a member...
Testimony presented before William Henry Harrison (grandson of the late President of that name and recently unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congressman from this district), judge pro tem., was that one James Brown had taken his horse to Royston's blacksmith shop to have it shod. It was limping badly, having been without shoes for a year. The horse kept lying down, making the shoeing difficult. He tried a "twitch" on it. but this failed to work. Then following what he said had been the advice of experts, he took hold of the horse's tongue and was told...
...Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
...terms of the President and Vice President expire by limitation. Should the President-elect die before taking office, the Vice President-elect would be sworn into the Presidency. The Senate would elect a President of the Senate pro tem, as it did when Calvin Coolidge succeeded to the Presidency of the U. S., leaving the Vice Presidency vacant. Should the President-elect and Vice President-elect both die before taking office, the outgoing Secretary of State would temporarily assume the Presidency until Congress, invested with such powers by the Twentieth Amendment, selected a President and Vice President either...
...Disability, Demise or Resignation?" That Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...