Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until 1919 that Mr. Hearst hanged himself politically. Then his New York newspapers, snarling with headlines and cruel cartoons, accused Alfred E. Smith, Governor of the state, with "killing East Side babies." The city milk supply was bad (everybody agreed to that) and babies were suffering. But a onetime Republican Legislature had taken power to regulate the problem out of the Governor's hands. Governor Smith knew this, and Mr. Hearst must have known it. Governor Smith had a genuine love for East Side babies, of which he once was one, and never forgave the publisher...
Bitter was Governor Smith's hatred. Three years later Mr. Hearst had allied himself with the powerful Tammany organization and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. On the same ticket he wanted Mr. Smith to run for Senator, and so did Tammany. An overwhelming victory was assured. Chewing stubbornly on his cigar in a Syracuse hotel room the day before the 1922 State Convention, Governor Smith risked political extinction, defied his organization, and said he would not run on the same ticket with the man who had accused him of withholding good milk from...
According to the Journal of Commerce those re-discount reductions were the result of the recent visit with Governor Benjamin Strong (the New York Federal Reserve Bank) of Governor Montagu Norman (the Bank of England) Deputy Governor Charles Rist (the Bank of France)' and Dr. Hjalmar Schact (head of the German Reichsbank) (TIME, July 11). Those visitors went with Governor Strong to Washington for a conference with members of the Federal Reserve Board...
Died. Major General Leonard Wood, 66, Governor General of the Philippines; in Boston (see page...
...James B. McDougal is Governor of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank...