Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ottawa, Ont., with this letter went the "distinguished citizen" about whom it was written-William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada (TIME, Feb. 14). He lunched with Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, presented his credentials to Governor General Viscount Willingdon, later dined with the Viscount at Rideau Hall, home of Lord and Lady Willingdon. Thus the Dominion greeted its first U. S. Minister, whose actual duties, however, await the official opening of the U. S. legation on July...
...morning some six weeks ago, 37 good years were marred by one allegedly negligent moment. It was during the naval review in New York Harbor (TIME, May 9). Between Governor's Island and the Battery the Colorado bumped, stopped, stuck fast on Diamond Reef, remained there 36 hours...
...Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, who last fornight had somewhat curtly replied to a request that he appoint a committee of investigation with the statement that the matter was his responsibility to be investigated as he saw fit, last week, suddenly, surprisingly, did appoint exactly the kind of committee which he had been asked to name...
Consisting of Judge Robert Grant (lawyer and novelist), President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University and President Samuel W. Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the committee will make an investigation independent of the Governor's own inquiry and report...
...Illinois has Len Small. And if the Judas of Illinois had the courage of the Judas of Jesus, he would return the 30 pieces of silver, get a rope and hang himself, and remove the withering blight which will remain upon this state as long as he is Governor of Illinois...