Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statements. Less analytical people confined themselves to flat statements. Onetime-Governor Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey was first into print with the classical ". . . as Cincinnatus was called from the plow...
Precedent. In 1915, having completed a pro tempore term as president of the Massachusetts Senate, Calvin Coolidge abruptly handed a slip of paper to his good friend, Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. _ The slip read: "I am a candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...York Herald Tribune, leading G. O. P. organ in the East, published a distinctly emotional editorial called "A Nationwide Mandate," in which it told that 30 of 42 Republican National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said...
...large an amount to be raised by this drive when you consider that lepers are the most wretched of human beings." Advocating this was one of his main reasons for his present visit to the U. S. He plans to resume his duties as Governor General of the Philippines in September...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...