Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans have Onward Christian Soldiers for their campaign song, as Mr. Fort says [TIME, July 9], I shall lose my last vestige of hesitancy and vote against Herbert Hoover the Quaker and for Governor Smith the Roman Catholic. Perhaps in the Quaker Church, with its lack of ritual, there is inculcated a disdain for the ritual of others. Brought up in the worship of silence, Mr. Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft...
...Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, having fished with the President, revealed: "The President caught more fish than I did, but my catch weighed more than his." When fishing, the President wears a red & black mackinaw, upon which is a golden fishing badge and the following insignia required...
...girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar stores were listening to the radio announcement of Governor Smith's nomination for President by the Democratic Party...
...last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor John H. Trumbull, left by the Arabic...