Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into national campaigns was brought to the fore by the Republican...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...
...Anyway, I'm against any revision of the thing via emotion. The Eighteenth Amendment was swept in by emotion. Governor Smith wants to get a change by emotion, inspired by his magnetic personality and popular appeal. I'd much rather trust the question to a mind like Hoover's, that will get the facts...
...Both Herbert Hoover and Governor Smith have fine wives...
Arkansas. In the home state of Nominee Robinson, the Democratic primary is all that matters. Held last week, it resulted in renomination for Governor Harvey Parnell. For Commissioner of Agriculture the Arkansas voters chose Earl Page, a man with no legs; for State Auditor, J. Oscar Humphrey, a man with no arms...