Word: despard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances had permitted him to remain in Clarksburg, the way John...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
There is, however, a law of compensation. Last week Guy Despard Goff reached out for the honor, almost as high as any John William Davis ever had, of standing forth as West Virginia's candidate for the G. O. P. candidacy. He entered his name for the West Virginia presidential primary at the end of May. The likelihood of his accomplishing anything at Kansas City in June was about as remote as Mr. Davis's chance of winning the 1924 election now by a recount. Nevertheless, Guy Despard Goff will be West Virginia's Favorite Republican...
...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...
West Virginia--Guv Despard Goff. LL.B...