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Engaged. Herman A. MacDonald, secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, onetime mayor of Beverly, Mass.; to Miss Marion Sarah Young, of Brookline, Mass. Said Governor Fuller last fortnight, "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters" (TIME, April...
Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...
...members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price to $580,375. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had his dealers buy Corot's Nymph Bathing...
...Alvan Tufts Fuller, freespoken Governor of Massachusetts, has a freespoken secretary, one Herman A. MacDonald. Referring publicly to a lately deposed Massachusetts official, Secretary MacDonald called the official "nutty" and said that he was being chased by squirrels. He also called him a "Mexican General...
...Davis 4 William G. McAdoo 3 Oscar W. Underwood 2 A. Lawrence Lowell 1 Joshua Whatmough 1 Charles A. Lindbergh 1 James Angell McLaughlin 1 Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Frank B. Willis 40 William E. Borah 28 Alvan T. Fuller 27 Charles E. Hughes 25 George W. Norris 21 Calvin Coolidge 9 J. Thomas Heflin 5 Roscoe Pound 3 Nicholas M. Butler 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 Dwight H. Morrow 1 Will H. Hays 1 Malcolm E. Nichols...