Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime (1916-17, 1919-23) Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell...
Alabama's loudest orator, U. S. Senator James Thomas Heflin, last week at Abbeville, Ala., vituperated Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, the daily press of Alabama and Pope Pius...
Died. Braxton Bragg Comer, 78, onetime (1907-11) Governor of Alabama, onetime (1920) U. S. Senator from Alabama; in Birmingham, after a long illness...
...bowls sliding as if upon green ice with the mechanical accuracy of bearings around a greased axle, he commented on the origin, development, tendencies, of the game he loves. A straight gentleman with a red Dutch face, he looked like the shade of Peter Minuit, onetime (1623-32) governor of New Amsterdam, legendary champion of New Amsterdam bowlers, as he said: "All the big sporting events are Chicago bound. The bowling tournaments might well be' held there...
...Governor John H. Trumbull, of Connecticut, required two planes to fly from his home in Plainville, Conn., to New York City. The first damaged a wing but not the occupants in landing; the second flew him safely to Mitchel Field, one of Manhattan's airport approximates...