Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Smith and his friends rejoiced in another occurrence, near Brooklyn. Borough President Connolly of Queens, whom Governor Smith ordered investigated for alleged sewer grafting, resigned from office...
...Senate, Candidate Walsh arraigned Senator Robinson of Indiana, who last month tried to connect Candidate Smith with Oilman Sinclair. "The Governor of New York," said the Senator from Montana, "is an extraordinary man in many particulars. Even calumny has not dared to assert that he is not an honest man. . . . The Governor of New York needs no defense from me. Nor does he require any defense . . . from...
...women-in-politics were concerned over the case of Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, whom New York elected its first woman Secretary of State for the term of 1924-1926 and who was later charged with "misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance" in office by a onetime subordinate (TIME, Feb. 6). Governor Smith ordered an investigation. The investigator strongly recommended prosecution. Women-in-politics feared that the Knapp case might interest the public more because the defendant was a woman than because of what she was alleged to have done...
...members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price to $580,375. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had his dealers buy Corot's Nymph Bathing...
Engaged. Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 22, fourth Viscount Hardinge and aide-de-camp to Lord Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Miss Margot Fleming, of Wynwards, Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, granddaughter of Sir Sandford Fleming, one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific...