National Affairs: Crop of Governors

With a great swearing of oaths, blaring of bands and outpouring of orations, a fresh crop of governors last week began taking office throughout the Nation. Last year 35 states held gubernatorial elections through which ran the same Democratic tidal wave that swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House. In January, prime month for state inaugurals, voters repaired to their capitols to hear and see the men on whom they had staked their hopes of a change for the better. They beheld new faces not nearly so handsome as the campaign posters,...

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