Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed to have. ... [I] will never willingly consent to any further association with him. . . ." To onetime Governor of Missouri Stephens, ex- President Wilson had written in 1922, when Senator Reed became a candidate for re-election to the U. S. Senate: "I shall hope and confidently expect to see him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot...
...President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does not state any principles or stand four-square." He added: "My grandfather put up the first $25,000 for Pullman to build his first sleep-ing-car in order that his daughter...
Twenty thousand legionnaires on the sea?hundreds pouring into Paris each day. Some followed one-armed General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, through the pouring rain to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Lamp of Maintenance on the Tomb of the Soldat Inconnu was relighted, hav-ing been snuffed out by the Communists (TIME, Sept. 5), who spat upon and "otherwise defiled" the sacred spot...
Healthy & Wise. Connecticut's governor, John H. Trumbull, shook his head. He would not fly in the Maine State Forestry Department's plane from Moosehead Lake to Augusta. He inspected the plane, took a train to Augusta. Soon the plane fell into Lake Caucomgumoc, killing pilot and passenger...
That situation the Harding administration tumbled over, with the re-organization of the Federal Reserve Board. President Harding's Comptroller of the Currency, his good friend & neighbor of Marion, Ohio. Daniel Richard Cris-singer, became Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and the regional banks were required to submit rediscount rates only for approval of changes...