Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Dan Moody of Texas, aged only 34. The 1928 Democratic Convention is in his State, and he in a Vice Presidential state (see "To Houston...
...Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Wyoming. Sloganed she: "Away from normalcy and back to idealism...
About Prohibition, Governor Ritchie was not nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition?the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
...there was a "moment" in the extravagantly long evening, it came when George R. Lunn, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, lifted his voice above a typewritten document which few but himself had read?a letter from "Al" Smith. Governor Smith was absent if for no better reason than that Mrs. Smith's appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention...
...Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. It was impossible to persuade Southerners to nominate Governor Smith four years ago in the Manhattan madhouse. But Southerners are gentlemanly hosts. At and after the first national political convention to be held in the South since the Civil War, Southerners would not (the Smith men thought) discomfit their guests nor disrupt the party by refusing to honor the outstanding Northern candidate. . . Having voted for Houston, outstanding Smith men were placed on the committee of arrangements, including Norman E. Mack of New York, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Isadore Dockweiler of California, George...