Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office was not by a Democrat or a Republican but by John Barleycorn-just before this sum total of all things iniquitous was kicked into his grave. The fact that John had once knocked out "our Frank," was so hotly resented...
...week was featured by presidential appointments, published and pending. President Coolidge named Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas to be Federal District Judge for the eastern half of his State...
...placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...
...Governor Ritchie of Maryland differs from most Presidential candidates. He has a platform. Hoover, Dawes, Smith, and Hughes are all running on their records. Lowden is running on the issue of farm relief. Donahey and Pomerene are running as Ohioans. Curtis is running on the advice of his friends. Watson is running for the Indiana delegation. Willis is running for practice or for exercise. But to date none of these gentlemen has defined his attitude toward the Presidency in any great detail...
Finally, Ritchie's hostility to the growth of Federal power and his loyalty to the theory of decentralization brings him into conflict with prohibition. Here his attitude differs sharply from the attitude expressed by Governor Smith in his last message to the State Legislature of New York. Smith argued that prohibition is a Federal matter; ergo, there is no reason for a State enforcement act. On the other hand, Ritchie argues--consistently with his theory of State rights--that prohibition is a matter with which the Federal Government has not legitimate concern under a truly Federal system, and that...