Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this paragraph you also say that while the new Governor is a Republican, the departmental staff "is Democratic to a man." It is Democratic but not "to a man." Mrs. Emma Guy Cromwell is the new State Treasurer, Miss Ella Lewis the new Secretary of State...
Last week, Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California cried: "Save the beaches!" In a newspaper article he declared that oil interests were menacing the "spectacular charm," "the permanent scenic and spiritual enrichment," of the littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
...Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland is devoted to States Rights. But last week, at a convention of Maryland farmers, he proposed something Federal in scope-a compact national organization of farmers, comparable to the American Federation of Labor, and for it Government aid comparable to Industry's tariff. Labor's immigration law, Banking's Federal Reserve...
Jamaica. Since 1655 a British possession. British Governor. Kingston a splendid city, smart hotels. Here Negroes know and keep their place. Bananas now replace as chief export the famed rum & ginger. Jamaica was discovered by Columbus in 1494, on his second voyage to America. This time he came not with three ships, but with 14 sturdy caravels, plus three great galleons, bringing colonists and 12 zealous Benedictine missionaries headed by Father Bernardino Buil...