Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads $110.06 25 industrials 194.25 40 bonds 91.29* Foreign gov't. bonds...
...after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...
...tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This is the case, I repeat, of Aaron Sapiro or Sapyro-I don't know just which wav to pronounce...
Engaged. Woodbridge Bingham, eldest of Senator Hiram Bingham's (Conn.) seven sons, descendant of three colonial governors; to Ursula Wolcott Griswold, descendant of four Connecticut governors. She is the granddaughter of the late John Sloane, and the late Matthew Griswold; great-granddaughter of Gov. Roger G. Griswold; great-great-granddaughter of Gov. Matthew Griswold. Her father is William E. S. Griswold, potent Manhattan businessman...
...judge of the Ohio Superior Court, he was succeeded in 1887 by William H. Taft. While governor of Ohio he consistently exposed political graft, regardless of party affiliations, and was re-elected with a plurality of 100,000 his second term, defeating Warren G. Harding. Although a national figure, Gov. Harmon's candidacy for Democratic Presidential nomination was doomed to failure, partly owing to the unfriendly attitude of William J. Bryan...