Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approval. Polls of this kind are really the only way in which the people's choice for president can be discovered. And, of course, when the candidate is preferred by groups of educated young men such as the student bodies of our Universities, it is all the more convincing." Governor Alvan T. Fuller was expressing his opinions to a CRIMSON representative in his office in the State House...
...brewed up for him. A great many, of course, will always vote the straight Republican or Democratic ticket because their fathers did before them, and the party leaders are rarely disappointed in counting heavily on this group. Of course if a Harding is preferred to a Hoover, well . . ." The governor shrugged his shoulders sug- gestively, leaving the conclusion to the imagination...
...innocuous little duds so often hurled by Mr. Goodwin suddenly exploded, and Mr. Goodwin became the ex-Registrar. Act II was a banquet of condolence at Worcester. Tragedy was shoved off the boards by a triumphal burst as friends acclaimed in Mr. Goodwin the next Governor of Massachusetts. He neither accepted nor vetoed the proposition definitely; but he hinted at favor if the people so willed. No astrologer is needed to prophesy that Goodwin vs. Fuller will be the main contest at the Republican primaries this fall...
...judge for yourself." But there Mr. Goodwin plays false to his former role. His banquet appearance contained not a little invective against wealthy automobile dealers; and now, another Luther raging against the nobles, he turns and joins the hated ranks. Mr. Goodwin as Registrar was forceful; as candidate for Governor he will again be able to furnish pyrotechnic displays. But he cannot be too careful. Mr. Goodwin as the New England agent for the Elcar is giving the other side too much of a chance to steal his thunder; the primary campaign in itself promises plenty of sound and fury...
...value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became a prominent figure in Texan Republican politics. It is still repeated in Texas that Mark Hanna himself put him on the governor's military staff, which made Capitalist Green of Manhattan a Texan Colonel. The Colonel paid the railroad's deficit regularly every year. It was his plaything. Last week the Southern Pacific bought Texas Midland, adding 125 miles to 16,601 miles. Colonel Green received $2,500,000 cash...