Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rump Parliament and the Tennis Court Oath now have their parallel or parody in the State of Oklahoma where Governor Johnston, in danger of being impeached, flees his nemesis by the efficacious course of placing bayonets before the door of any building where the impeaching body might meet. But these newly created men in the street, with none of the reputed indifference of the other citizens, have already instituted proceedings in what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient...
...world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Perceiving this, Chicago Democrats have taken hope. Last week they announced a plan to dispel the Republican shadow from south Chicago. They were reported to have obtained the most famed citizen of Negro Chicago to work for Governor Al Smith and the Democracy...
When Roy Archibald Young newly installed Governor of the Federal Reserve Board rose brusquely from his dining chair at the ninth annual meeting of the American Acceptance Council in Manhattan last week, members studied the blocky, curly-headed man inquisitively. Mr. Young had a reputation for diffidence. When President Coolidge appointed him from comparatively obscure Minnesota to be Board governor, Mr. Young had said: "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he will never regret the confidence he has placed in me." When asked to what he attributed his rise...
...Dutch bankers between $145,000,000 and $153,000,000, Swiss bankers about $109,000,000. The Federal Reserve restrictions have been as a checkrein on U. S. international bankers. Therefore those who attended the American Acceptance Council meeting in Manhattan last week applauded when Governor Young explained the new leniency of the Federal Reserve Board: "Bankers' acceptances may properly be considered as growing out of transactions involving the importation or exportation of goods when drawn for the purpose of financing the sale and distribution on usual credit terms of imported or exported goods into the channels of trade...