POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor

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A small group of newshawks, most of them local and familiar but some of them from out-of-town, stood around the desk of the Governor of Pennsylvania one day last week eying a prosaic-looking man with drooping eyelids. Said Governor George Howard Earle III: "Gentlemen, I have something here that may or may not be important to you but I feel very strongly about it at this time."

Then he picked up two sheets of paper covered with his own writing, in pencil, and began to read:

"I've got a lot of...

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