Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week were Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, to urge the appointment of Lawyer David E. Kaufman of Philadelphia as U. S. Minister to Egypt; the new Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Carlos Davila, to present credentials; Senators Charles Curtis of Kansas and Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, and Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, to pay respects; Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee to talk flood control...
...Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California and Lieutenant Governor Burton Fitts both welcomed the delegates warmly...
Satisfied. Governor Wallace Rider...
Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (whom the show booms for President) makes a speech to an orphan asylum...