Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Think of the humiliation and degradation which touches all of us when such a fine-spirited, straightforward, clean-minded and loyal man as Governor Smith is called a drunkard and a political crook...
...Hoover knows what ought to be done as well as Governor Smith, but he has not had opportunity to demonstrate his political capacity to get it done. Governor Smith has made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much...
...Nominee on the train, energetic, cordial. . . . Some Montana Indians replaced the Brown Derby with eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover...
...North Dakota, Walter Haddock, the Non-Partisan who became Governor last month when Republican Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie died, received Nominee Smith at Bismarck (the capital), shook the Smith hand, rode on the Smith Special. But he would only say that 80% of the North Dakota farmers were for Smith and that he (Maddock) was for the farmers. Friends said Governor Maddock was being careful for Nominee Smith's sake because he, too, is a Roman Catholic. Others said: "Maddock is out for himself only...
...gubernatorial candidate the choice was an able, amiable little Jew who now occupies an office across the hall from Governor Smith at Albany-Attorney-General Albert Ottinger. For its senatorial candidate the party looked far aloof and picked out no less a personage than droop-lidded, bespectacled Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, famed debunker of hands-across-the-sea, prosperous glassmaker of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Houghton, in London, accepted the nomination, started home...