Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Probably the greatest demonstrations ever accorded a Democratic presidential candidate in normally Republican southern New England attended Gov. Smith's pas sage...
...Young delivered no philippic, no bomb. If there had been any crisis at Philadelphia, no listener would have guessed it. Gov. Young told the bankers the A. B. C. of banking. He laid down some incontrovertible rules of ethics. Among them: "Responsibility of banks does not end with their depositors and stockholders. Banks also have a responsibility to the community in which they are located. . . . It is my conviction that a healthy banking situation is the best guaranty of a healthy economic development...
Engaged. Gifford Pinchot 2d, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot, famed society actress (The Miracle); to Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin, French engineer and automobile manufacturer...
...Gov. Smith nor any other President, can appoint judges of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Outside of his recommendations for changes in our Prohibition enactments and his comments thereon, I regard Gov. Smith's acceptance speech as a convincing and able deliverance. That he will give us an effective enforcement of Prohibition as long as it is the law no one can justly doubt, after noting his declaration in that respect. I oppose and shall continue to oppose the changes he has suggested in the case of Prohibition, but I shall not permit my devotion to that great reform to blind me to the fact that other questions are calling imperatively for solution...