Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...About 2 p.m. Saturday Sheriff Pecot called me on the telephone and said Gov. Long had reprieved the prisoners, and that the hanging...
Wisconsin. Innumerable U. S. magazine readers have seen advertisements for colored sinks, for "electric" sinks, for other plumbing fixtures manufactured by "Kohler of Kohler." The Kohler in question is Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., newly-elected Governor of Wisconsin. Gov. Kohler also keeps horses, flys an airplane. His nomination was notable in that he defeated Representative Joseph Beck, candidate of the progressive Republicans, headed by Robert La Follette...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker Ritchie, onetime wife of Gov. Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland; to Dr. Francis I. Proctor; Boston eye specialist; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. So circumspectly was Mrs. Ritchie's divorce obtained in 1916 that many Maryland voters are unaware that Gov. Ritchie has ever been married...