Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Callers during the week included: Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, asking favors for oystermen; Senator Frederick N. Gillett of Massachusetts, to pay respects and tell a story (see POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House...
...McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...most prized gift is a calfskin safe deposit box, once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...
...half dozen speeches violently critical of Governor Smith's record at Albany, might, if anything, rather tend to strengthen his cause: or at least they would not be of more worth than a few double-edged remarks as to the functions of the Apostolic Delegate in Washington. The public knows that in spite of the assertions of Messrs Mills and Roosevelt New York is a well-run state, but a certain portion of the voting public will always exult a mention of the vague menace which might somehow be said to emanate from the Vatican...
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian warfare on his friends, relations, and religion...