Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate is 50 Republicans, 43 Democrats, two Farmer-Laborites, one vacancy. Assuming, however, that the election of President and Vice President should be thrown into Congress, it is to be expected that the two Farmer-Laborites with at least three Republicans, LaFollette, Ladd and Frazier, would vote for Gov. Bryan rather than for Gen. Dawes. This would make the lineup: Bryan 48, Dawes 47. Hence the vacant seat, then occupied by either a Republican or a Democrat, might make a great difference in the result...
...Gov. J. J. Morrow, of the Canal Zone, brother of Dwight W. Morrow (a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.), set aside Barro Colorado Island, one of the group, as a natural preserve for the wild life of the region. The island is some six square miles in area, lies only about two miles from the Isthmian Railway...
...dealer in South Dakota is not a happy one. Last year, during the period of crude overproduction, prices for gasoline were kept fairly high until Gov. W. H. McMaster intervened. So many of the oppressed farmers of South Dakota own and operate Fords and even more elaborate motor cars that the price of gasoline is of more than academic interest. The Governor saw the chance for a political ten-strike and he took...
WOODROW WILSON?1916 Nominator?Former Judge John W. Wescott (N.J.) Seconders?Ex-Gov. Harmon (Ohio) Gov. Stuart...
CHARLES E. HUGHES?1916 Nominator?Charles S. Whitman (then Gov. of N. Y.) Seconders?Leo Weinberg (Ind.) Charles W. Fulton...