Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recently, in Iowa, two little girls came home to their father and said, 'We are going to have another war.' The father said, 'What do you mean?' 'Why,' they said, 'we were told at school that President Wilson started the last war and if Governor Smith is elected he is going to start another...
...Here's one for you?listen to this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
...Montana. Passing through Wyoming, the Brown Derby was greeted by Republican Governor Frank C. Emerson and gazed at (from a hotel window) by aged Republican Senator Francis E. Warren. Democratic Senator John B. Kendrick was off in the wilds, campaigning...
Representing the Nominee's family, besides plumply placid Mrs. Smith, is the Nominee's eldest daughter, trim, slim Mrs. Emily Smith Warner. At El Reno, Okla., last week, she substituted for him when Governor Johnston and a welcoming party boarded the Smith Special at 8 a. m. "My father was up very late preparing for his speech tonight," she said. "I know you will excuse him. We thought it best not to wake him early...
...Where does he [Nominee Hoover] compare, if you will-and I dare challenge itin his Americanism with Alfred E. Smith? . . . When Mr. Hoover cast his first American vote, after his many years in the Orient, in Australia and other places, Alfred E. Smith was Governor of New York. From 1902 to 1912, Mr. Hoover's official address was London, England. I don't propose to criticize him for that, nor do I propose to forget Mr. Hoover's great humanitarian work during the War. But at the same time Governor Smith was engaged in humanitarian work...