Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining non-partisan and more or less theoretical, cannot materially further this type of education. Recent political club revivals...
...perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...Governor (mayor) of Rome who resigned, last week, is Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, famed because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
Senor Emilio Fortes Gil is a lawyer and was Governor of Tamaulipas from 1925 until his recent appointment as Minister of Interior. Stocky of figure and stern of face, he teetotals, eschews tobacco...