Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest of Senators, Francis Emory Warren (aged 83) of Wyoming, to introduce onetime (1918-19) Governor William Evelyn Cameron of Wyoming...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court to discuss the Philippines and, doubtless, the impending appointment of a new Governor-General. As he put on his coat and started to leave the White House, Judge Taft's constitutional smile took on a baffled expression. He walked off but soon returned, heaving with discomfort. By mistake, he had been helped into the coat of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Changing coats, Judge Taft chuckled something about reducing, walked off smiling broadly once more. Big but not bulky, Senator Howell was closeted, all unknowing...
...Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet Democrat, ate haggis* with the St. Andrew's Society last week in Manhattan. Said he: "About the only things that make eyes flash and stir human emotions now are Prohibition, the K. K. K., religious intolerance and Fundamentalism. . . . The real question is not whether you are 'wet' or 'dry,' to use the inept phrases of the hour, but whether there should be a national, blanket law governing any such question of personal conduct when that law receives neither sanction nor regard among large communities and groups...
...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
...bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan the St.Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. $300,000 from State funds; expressed their sorrow at the death of Lieutenant-Governor S. Hollister Jackson, drowned at Barre...