Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful capitol you have," said President Coolidge to Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota as he and Mrs. Coolidge inspected the capitol building at Pierre, S. D., the only western city besides Hammond, Ind., in which the presidential party left the train. Trucks crowded with cameramen flanked the motor car in which the President and the Governor headed the procession through Pierre streets, snapped...
President, bowing, smiling; snapped Mrs. Coolidge, bowing, smiling, carrying a presentation bouquet of roses and wild Canterbury bells. The President's visit started a boom for Governor Bulow for the Democratic nomination to the Vice Presidency...
...British Treasury announced last week without comment the significant fact that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
Episodes: Candidate for Governor of Illinois, Atheist Ingersoll is asked to state his allegiance to the Christian Church. "Man to man, Bob!" "What?" "What about it?" "Why, damn it, just this. My beliefs are my own and I wouldn't sacrifice one of them to be president of the whole rolling earth. Going? Well, take another cigar...
Epistles: To deny he will accept nomination for Attorney General-"When I say I am a candidate for a particular office I mean it; and when I say I am not a candidate for a particular office, I mean that, too. When I became candidate for Governor, I renounced my candidacy for Attorney General; and other candidates were invited into the field. I would despise myself forever were I now to become a candidate against any of these men whom, by my action, I have invited to become candidates...