Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Governor Dan Moody of Texas refused to bolt the party because of what the nomi nee had said. Their attitude was, in effect: "We need and want Smith for many reasons. We can keep him in hand on this Prohibition matter, which is only one of many matters to be considered by the Democracy...
...autumn of 1902, speaking about Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Pierce predicted: "We will see him inside of ten years Senator, a Governor, then the President of the United States." Only the Senator part failed to come true...
...honored name of Scotland Yard. The national hero who consented to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
Last week Lord Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa...
Parent, Saying Son Weeps for Pet, Sure Governor Had No Part in Action...