Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former Chief of the Control Board of the U. S. Army Air Service, Personal Representative of the Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service on the Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer of the National Aeronautic Association, an international banker and authority on conditions in the Eastern Baltic Republics, and a West Point graduate retiring from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 4) That the "onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson...
...House for dinner one evening were three people who once lived there several years?Theodore, Kermit and Alice Roosevelt (now Longworth.) Theodore said that he was studying Spanish, not in order the better to converse with the President who knows it well, but in preparation for his duties as Governor of Porto Rico, in which the Senate had just confirmed...
...Rapidan camp for one more weekend. Guests at the camp included Secretary of Commerce Lamont, F. K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Mrs. Jean Large, sister of Mrs. Hoover, and her two children; Charles Kellogg Field, college classmate of the President; James Putnam Goodrich, one-time (1917-21) Governor of Indiana; and, most noteworthy of all, William Joseph Donovan, ardent Hooverite in last year's campaign for whom the President did not find a cabinet position and who refused the governorship of the Philippines. Apparently any Hoover-Donovan breach was all patched...
...Confirmed the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., to be Governor of Porto Rico, of John Work Garrett to be Ambassador to Italy, of Gerrit John Diekema and George Thomas Summerlin to be Ministers to the Netherlands and to Venezuela, respectively...
...Banff Festival the old contests are revived. There were 14,000 people (most of them in kilts) watching the outdoor piping and dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...