Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speeches. Last week in Detroit, speakers remembered how badly they had been treated in 1898. Governor of Michigan Fred W. Green† said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses...
...would stand, smiling a little and very proud, pointing out to some visitor his prize heifer or a likely bull. Many friends came to see the stock farm, but more came to see the rich and influential owner. Finally these many friends, in 1920, nominated Warren T. McCray for Governor of Indiana. And caused him to be elected...
When he was Governor, there came a rumor that Warren T. McCray had met with financial difficulties, that his stock farm had been a failure, and that he was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Governor denied these rumors and said that in any case his private affairs could be of little interest to the public. The public, though, became interested later when they discovered that Warren T. McCray had been involved in a shady scheme to recover some of the wealth which he had undoubtedly lost. When he was convicted of using the mails to defraud, they were scandalized...
Among his many old supporters who grieved to see so popular and potent a politician in jail was Chase Salmon Osborn, millionaire and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan, who in 1926 appealed...
President Coolidge that he be allowed to take the place of Warren T. McCray. Later both Indiana Senators asked that a parole be given the onetime Governor. Public sympathy mounted even higher when it was hinted that when indicted the Governor had refused a Klu Klux Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta...