Word: governor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Governor Sampson held an inaugural ball at the executive mansion, where dancing had been forbidden all during the Fields administration...
...Governor Edwin P. Morrow, Mr. Fields' Republican predecessor, did not have time to record all his last-minute pardons in the executive journal. For days after Mr. Fields took office, convicts' relatives poured in bearing Morrow pardons. Some years ago, while Kentucky's Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state for three days, acting Governor Thomas A. Combs issued scores of pardons, including one to a felon who had pleaded guilty...
...Irish Free State Government "advised" King-Emperor George V, last week, to appoint a new Governor General to the Irish Free State. His Majesty was further "advised" that an acceptable appointee would be James McNeill, now resident in London as High Commissioner for the Irish Free State...
Since times have changed, the King-Emperor accepted both these pieces of advice, last week. Mr. McNeill will take office as Governor General late in January. His appointment does not mean that Irishmen are dissatisfied with crusty but beloved Governor General Timothy Healy. It merely happens that "Tim" has vice-regally represented the Crown for the customary period of five years and that the appointment of his successor is a matter of empire "routine...
Died. William Hodges Mann, 84, onetime Governor of Virginia (1910-1914), Confederate veteran; at Richmond, of heart disease...