Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stephen J. Field) was an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1863-97). She had devoted most of her life to welfare work and during some 52 years had failed to exhibit anything in the nature of criminal tendencies. Yet last week it required a pardon from Governor C. C. Young of California to save Charlotte Anita Whitney from an indeterminate sentence of from 1 to 14 years in the San Quentin prison...
Last week, however, Governor Young issued her an unconditional pardon, said that to put her in a cell was "unthinkable." Governor Young carefully added that the law under which she was convicted was undoubtedly constitutional, but that "abnormal conditions attending the trial" greatly influenced the jury and that "under ordinary circumstances" the case never would have been prosecuted. These latter remarks presumably referred to the fact that in 1919-20 the U. S. nation engaged in a widespread Radical-hunt, and "Bolsheviki" became a common epithet for one small boy to hurl at another...
...President at the State Lodge last week came Governor General of the Philippine Islands Leonard Wood. No other U. S. citizen has had so long or so distinguished a colonial career as General Wood, whom four Presidents (McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge) have placed to take charge of U. S. colonies.* Yet last week it was generally felt that the Governor General had come home to stay. For General Wood returned a sick man, his future career depending upon the decision of doctors whom he will later consult in the East. They will be called upon to consider the following disabilities...
Rutgers University Arthur Harry Moore, Governor of New Jersey...
Boston University Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts LL. D. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor Boston Herald Litt. D. Clarence Walker Barren, publisher, financial periodicals D. Commercial...