Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legion's van guard went out to show its wives its old battlefields, its comrades' graves, planning went ahead for the parade, on Sept. 19, of 15,000 legionaries and 15,000 Frenchmen behind one-armed General Gouraud, onetime commandant of the A. E. F. now military governor of Paris...
...just like home for Mayor Walker. He chatted with everyone, gabbled on the ship's run, watched people drink champagne, radioed a wet friend (onetime Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey) to "have another." The day of the deck sports he gave out prizes, exacting a kiss from the first, a bunchy little girl of ten. It was not his fault that the next nine prize-winners were pretty young women. Chortling, he kissed them...
...Berlin, the Welt Am Abend, radical sheet, snarled: "Next week the Mayor of New York, Jazz Walker, ally of" Fuller [Governor of Massachusetts] intends to visit Berlin. The gentleman should turn back. He wants to be received here Wednesday. We do not receive murderers...
They docketed the case for review by the highest court in the country hoping a) to give Governor Fuller of Massachusetts grounds for a further reprieve since the case was still, technically, before a court; and b) to give any one of the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court opportunity to request a review of the case, which request would have given Governor Fuller broader grounds for a reprieve...
Professor Gustavus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt University, broke a bomb in the national veneration for F. F. V.'s.* He said that study of Southern politics proved that Virginia before the Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city...