Word: ex-governors
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...Legion of Honor in the Throne Room. But the palace has other rooms for the parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand at ping-pong...
This is news to us, and I am sure that the first of the statements would be news to Mr. Fairbanks as well; and the second to ex-Governor Jore. You should sit on the head of your office-boy reviewer when he makes such gratuitous assertions, for some of your readers may believe them...
...direct and straightforward attacks against "legal(?) czars" of the past, for the betterment of the millions in the U. S. A. and abroad, puts into total eclipse such former idols as our ex-Governor. The history of this era, when written, will record the name of Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin in bold relief...
...Gore to be Governor of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican politicos did their best to find out who he was. Unlike their then Governor ,Republican James Rumsey Beverley, he had never lived in Puerto Rico. Unlike young Theodore Roosevelt who had preceded Governor Beverley, he had no great name. All they could discover was that he came from Florida, had nine children. They were pleased with the nine children because that meant that he could sympathize with the Puerto Rican love of big families. They were also pleased to find that he was Catholic-the first Catholic governor...
...business in Hartford to be the "flying Governor of Connecticut" and John Coolidge's father-in-law, announced from his Plainville, Conn. home that he had formed a third, "non-partisan" stockholders' committee. He too called for proxies. His committee, said the Governor, was best qualified to judge the merits of the controversy. It included Lessing Julius Rosenwald, potent vice board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., William Benson Mayo, onetime chief of Ford aircraft construction. President Howard Coonley of Boston's Walworth Co. (valves), three airline organizers. Promptly Mr. Cord piped up: "Ex-Governor Trumbull was one of the principals...