Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilfred Veno, hockey man, lying in a New Haven, Conn, hospital, nursing injuries received when John Coolidge, driving Governor Trumbull's car, crashed the Veno car (TIME, Oct. 8), said that he had been assured that President Coolidge would "take care of him." He displayed two dozen roses from the President. He said there would be no damage suit...
...telegraphed a most unusually premature or prophetic admirer* to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, congratulating him on his Democratic nomination for Governor of New York (TIME...
...York is divided into an expansive Republican "upstate" and a congested Democratic "downstate." In no one of his four successful campaigns for Governor did Alfred E. Smith ever carry more than 13 of the 57 counties outside of New York City. This year it has been variously estimated that he would have to meet Nominee Hoover at the New York City line with a plurality of 400,000 to 600,000 votes, to save his State's 45 electoral votes...
...Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy and asked him, in 1918, to run for Governor of New York. The War was on and Mr. Roosevelt felt he was needed abroad. He suggested Alfred E. Smith. The rest is well-known ? how the Harvard graduate proposed the Tammany graduate for President of the U. S. in 1920; how the Harvard graduate was himself nominated for Vice...
Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...