Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other presidential visitors were: onetime Governor William Sproul of Pennsylvania, who introduced E. E. Loomis, President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; Frank L. Perrin of the Christian Science Monitor; U. S. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, who discussed flood conditions; and the United States Champion Junior Dairy Judging Team...
...hats and soft hats mingled in cosmopolitan proximity as a crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then the Willingdon grey topper and the King black topper revolved toward each other in puzzlement. Even with glasses they could not pick the winner. The judges said: "Troutlet...
...Omaha, Neb., the national council of the Congregational Church met for conference last week; elected President Ozora S. Davis of Chicago Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate home missions, church building, Sunday school extension, educational and publishing work theretofore handled by separate boards; heard a committee recommend a merger of Congregationalists with Universalists, Christians, United Brethern, Brethern and Methodist Protestants...
...season of playing at Dedham ended yesterday with a practise game on Governor Forbes' field. The Harvard quartet will go to Myopia having gained honors last week by winning the Copley Plaza Trophy in a round robin tournament in which the Dedham Club, the Norfolk Club and the Harvard substitutes were also competitors...