Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sakonika 200 Communist tobacco workers staged a demonstration before the Governor's palace. Police chased them to the Communist Club, where they barricaded themselves, produced arms and defended the Club for two hours until it was finally taken by assault, gutted. A score of policemen and Communists were wounded, none killed...
Bingham Robbed. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, onetime Governor of Connecticut, big-boned Honolulu-born Yankee, explorer, archaeologist, World War aviation Lieutenant-Colonel, onetime Yale professor, and father of seven sons (one of whom is studying Chinese in Peking) was set upon in his private car by Chinese soldiers last week, in Honan Province...
...Upshaw, long a professional orator, listened admiringly to General Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, who told all the Wets to "go out in the Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going...
...James Whitcomb was famed throughout Indiana and was governor of that state, 1843-48. James Whitcomb Brougher (born 1870) and James Whitcomb Riley (1853-1916) and many another James Whitcomb were named...
ORDEAL BY GLORY?James Marshall?McBride ($2). Had small-town John Hoyer married sex-appealing Agnes Paine instead of sweet, sympathetic Mary Borchard, he might never have become Governor. At his peak, however, when the architecture of his career has been executed to a nicety, he crumbles at a stroke of apoplexy...