Word: governor
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...policy of obtaining prominent Democrats and Progressives for a series of forum discussions on the issues of the approaching campaign. Among the men who have been approached by the club are W. G. McAdoo, Newton D. Baker, and Professor W. Y. Elliott. There is also a possibility the Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York may be secured...
Senator Walsh, who is a lawyer by training, was admitted to the bar in 1897 after graduating from Holy Cross College and Boston University Law School. He subsequently became a member of the State House of Representatives and in 1913 was made Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. From this office he rose to the Governorship in 1914, and since 1919 he has been United States Senator from Massachusetts, having been re-elected in the fall...
Until last week, the one piece of presidential timber actually blazed by the Democrats was New York State's widespreading Irish oak, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. But when a Democratic State Committee finished its business in Missouri, Tuesday night, it had placed its mark on Missouri's tough-fibred, silver-topped sycamore, U. S. Senator James A. Reed...
...Significance. Senator Reed is, of course, as Wet as he is fiery. Between his politics and Governor Smith's the chief difference comes on Big Business, to which Governor Smith is geographically nearer. Senator Reed's assault at Sedalia was not merely upon crooked "interests" but upon trusts in general. He did not, however, mention that anathema of the bankers, farm relief. Unless Governor Smith declares himself as a Big Business man, delegates instructed for Senator Reed would, at convention, have only the dwindling barrier of Governor Smith's religion to hurdle, should the Reed candidacy prove...
...statue was the gift of the State of Mississippi. To bestow it properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...