Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland praised Senator Reed, Grover Cleveland and the outstanding absentees, Dry Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana and Wet Governor Smith of New York. About the latter. Governor Ritchie waxed fervent: "He has proved himself, of course, the great Governor of a great State and an honest, fearless and efficient administrator. But more than that, the masses sense that here is an authentic voice, not only of the Democratic Party but of the democracy of the nation...
...present indications, Governor Smith will be nominated for president by the Democrats at Houston next summer. And after that, if the dam does not break before will come the deluge, a deluge to throw religion into relief, and overflow a hundred volumes of Americana, or Heffliana. Prohibition has been a sufficient bone of contention, but it may readily be seen that man can never be aroused to battle over his right to indulgance or his desire to forbid it, as he can be harried into charging blindly when an ingrained and unreasoning religious prejudice is invoked...
...over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed, if the one in question is the greatest governor New York ever had. The stupid assertions about drinking that have been made by drys who now oppose Smith, are incredible enough, but atatcks on Catholicism by religious enemies of the Governor, by the example of Mr. Hefflin, are now seen to present even greater possibilities...
Included in the list of those attending the dinner will be members of the University and Freshman teams, and numerous Harvard men who played polo as undergraduates. Another player who is expected to be present at the dinner is Governor W. C. Forbes '92, an ardent supporter of polo, who has assisted the University polo teams in securing a place for practice. G. S. Mandell '89 and Devereux Milburn, who are prominent in international polo, are to be present...
...Wolcott is a son of the late Roger Wolcott '70, who, in 1895, while he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, was Commencement marshal. Roger Wolcott was subsequently Governor of Massachusetts for three years, in addition to ten months of service as Acting Governor after the decease of Frederic T. Greenhalge, '63, who died in office, March 5, 1896, while Governor of the Commonwealth...