Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager audience. The majority of the club passed the weekend as guests of the University of Toronto where nothing was left undone for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. On Tuesday evening an audience, notable among which were the Canadian Ambassador to the United States and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, gave the club a great ovation in Convocation Hall which could not have been surpassed. The Toronto press commented, saying that the club had "created a furore" and that "those persons who stayed away from the Harvard chair concert missed the finest exhibition Toronto has heard in many...
...evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much in the courts, but the sore will probably come to a head in the person of Governor Smith...
...newly-elected alderman in the Flushing district of Queens took over Lawyer Klein's evidence and charges and passed them up to Albany, asking Governor Smith to suspend and investigate the entire Connolly regime. Since President Connolly is a Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...
...Governor Smith acted with dispatch, and ordered the inquiry himself. Last fortnight he appointed Justice Townsend Scudder of the New York Supreme Court to hear the evidence. Justice Scudder in turn chose special counsel to collect the evidence and prosecute. Justice Scudder's choice of a prosecutor was interesting because it brought into play against the Irish-American political tradition represented by President Connolly, two wholly opposite traditions personified in Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner...
...Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international bankers?just as the Bank of England did when the British Government decided to return to the gold standard. . . . Negotiations were conducted [last fortnight] in London by the Director General of the Bank of Italy. . . . with the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who purposely had journeyed to London, and the Governor of the Bank of England, as well as with an important group of Anglo-U. S. bankers...