Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ashore once more, all was well with President Coolidge. He rode around the streets of Key West in an automobile, climbed into the Coolidge Special, slumbered deeply up the Keys and through Florida to Jacksonville, where he got up and called for a breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...Smith refused to accept his rejection, regarding himself as an agent of his State, duty-bound to fight out an issue between Illinois and the U. S. Senate. Governor Small of Illinois refused to appoint a successor to Smith, lest the "vacancy" be thus admitted by Illinois to be legal. The Illinois decision last week was to re-elect Smith, if possible, next autumn rather than go to court against the Senate at once...
Last week, eight years after leaving under a politically-brewed cloud, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo returned in triumph to the State Capitol of Mississippi, for his second four-year term as Governor. Once tried and acquitted of bribery, Mr. Bilbo had recarved his career, whetting the fighting edge of his ambition on the grindstone of his persecution.* Inaugurated once more, he reiterated all the things he wanted to do for Mississippi. The list sounded to the holiday crowd that had flocked to Jackson from counting house and cotton field, like a sane program to fulfill. It included...
Though each of these items was important, Number 2 seemed most important to Governor Bilbo. "I will push the passage of this measure," he cried "and will not smile upon any other until it has been passed...
...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...