Word: governor
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Five Days in Boston, or Much Said and Little Done-that was the 58th annual convention of the National Education Association. But it was a success: the biggest attendance in N. E. A. history, 15,000. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh flew from Detroit and was mistaken for Mrs. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts in one receiving line...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, governor of Massachusetts: "Business, as such, desires that the lower schools should help the boy to understand his obligations to the social, civic and economic community . . . as the English would put it, to 'play the game...
...Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate. Meanwhile, the U. S. had declared war on Mexico and a General Kearney arrived in California to take charge. Kearney and Frémont quarreled so violently that a lieutenant named...
...mont lived in luxury in Manhattan and Tarrytown, N. Y. (part of his estate was later owned by John D. Rockefeller). Then suddenly he lost all his wealth in a railroad scheme in the West. His wife wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. President Hayes appointed him territorial governor of Arizona in 1878 at a salary of $2,000 a year. In 1890, soon after the Army put him on the retired pay list, he died of a violent chill, in a Manhattan boarding house. Jessie lived until...