Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada's annexation by the U. S. as a "bogey" kept alive by Canadian alarmists. He lunched with Prime Minister King, dined with U. S. Minister William Phillips. At a state dinner given by the Government, he bespoke "rivalry without bitterness" and proceeded to a reception given by Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. Returning home after four days, he brought a thorough going invitation to President Coolidge to visit Canada...
Another official went west-Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, on the stately S. S. President McKinley, to be Governor-General of the Philippines...
...after refusing a $10,000 bribe to appoint someone else, Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana appointed honest William H. Remy prosecuting attorney for Marion County. Governor McCray soon went to Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder...
...Prosecutor Remy fried a bigger fish than these. Last week he brought Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana to trial, charged with conspiring to bribe. It was the same bribery to the failure of which Prosecutor Remy owed his original appointment...
...Conspiracy. It is charged that Ed Jackson, Dragon Stephenson and two minor politicians put their heads together in 1923, found that they needed 10.000 votes to swing the coming gubernatorial primary, decided that control of Marion county's prosecuting office would give them the votes, offered Governor McCray (then in mail trouble) $10,000 to let them name the prosecutor. Also they promised Governor McCray that no jury in Indiana would convict him of any crime. Governor McCray refused...