Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mobile, Ala., Mayor Walker did not leave his train. He had canceled an engagement to speak when he heard that politicians hostile to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith were planning to put him in a private home instead of a theatre...
...sincere statement of his whole trip. "Do you realize," he said, "that I come from a community that gives politics little thought?" The inaccuracy of this statement was that New Yorkers were "thinking plenty" about politics-thinking that perhaps the Walker trip was, after all, a bid to succeed Governor Smith at Albany...
...pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...
...candidate," announced a certain politician last week, "for Governor of Ohio, and the Democratic Ticket. . . . I am conscious of the fact that my personal political success is of no consequence to the public. Whether I win or lose makes no difference in the forward march of Ohio, unless I can make a definite and substantial contribution to her progress...
...which he had served since 1923 is a sort of chief morale officer to the building trades-to devote himself fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign of 1924 he managed from the confines of a wheel chair...