Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy executive week for President Coolidge. He appointed Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, who had so notably served the administration as a pacifier in Nicaragua, to be governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved...
...White House callers of the week included: Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, reputed a candidate for the G. O. P. nomination for President, to pay respects...
...Governor-General Willingdon and Vis-countess Willingdon have invited the entire club to a tea to be held at Government House on Wednesday. The concert will be held in the Russell Theatre that evening under a distinguished patronage...
Odds. Wall Street began laying bets on the Republican nomination. Last week's odds against: Hoover, 8 to 5; Lowden, 5 to 2; Dawes, 5 to 2; Butler, 7 to 1; Willis, 10 to 1; Longworth, 10 to 1. Against Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's election, odds were quoted...
Aftermath. Like most German importations, this one, effected by the Collwyn organization, enhances its drama with a slow and deliberate tempo, unfolds its story with a sombre and decisive insistence. In the remote and improbable province of Rupolosia among the barbaric villainies of a military governor, the ravages of his soldiery, and assorted chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen...