Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing workers listened politely to Mr. Francisco. They heard later that he spent a whole evening trying to telephone across the continent to Governor Smith and persuade him to withdraw at once. They were not offended when, departing in a huff, Mr. Francisco addressed them as a "meeting of the Bowery of a few small western towns...
Judge Joshua Greenwood of Salt Lake City was second to speak against the Smith resolution. "If he [Governor Smith] is nominated, I shall vote and work for him," said Judge Greenwood. "But ... I am not willing that it should go out to the North and the East and the South without further conventions that the great West is for Smith for President. If you insist on that, then we have reached the parting of the ways...
Last year they met and shook hands beneath the bottom of the Hudson River. This year they met and shook hands above the Hudson's surface-two Irish-blooded politicians, neighbors, mutual admirers; Governors Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York and Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey. Last year's ceremony was to celebrate the opening of the Holland Vehicular Tunnel between lower Manhattan and Jersey City (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). On that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week...
Indiana's next corruption trial comes next fortnight, featuring Governor Ed. Jackson and friends, indicted last fortnight on charges of trying to bribe Governor Jackson's predecessor, onetime Governor Warren T. McCray. Mr. McCray lately finished a prison term for a financial felony and will be present to testify (TIME, Sept. 19). Pending appeal of his case, Mayor Duvall, still in office, appointed as City Controller Mrs. John L. Duvall. He reasoned that, if he is deprived of his position, or even if he resigns, his wife will succeed the mayor of Indianapolis...
...Coolidge opened the Legion's business sessions in the Trocadero Palace. Then came the year's resolutions, chief among them one urging the creation of a separate U. S. department of aeronautics, headed by a Cabinet member, "as soon as warranted." Up jumped Francis Edward McGovern, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Wisconsin, to denounce "as soon as warranted" for a mouthful of "weasel words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting at the vital centres of the enemy...