Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polled some 160,000 votes (40,000 less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
...Governor Jackson made no comment on his Attorney General's letter. Less reticent were E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Grace Altvater, head of the Indianapolis Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, famed Fundamentalist...
...suspicious-looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...
What basis existed for thus supposing Governor Jackson a lawbreaker? Evidence from no less source than Indiana's Attorney General, Arthur L. Gilliom. Mr. Gil-liom has been opposed to the Wright (state prohibition) Law which, drier than the Volstead Act, does not permit whiskey to be sold in Indiana even on a doctor's prescription. Seeking the Governor's aid in amending the Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled...
Said the Rev. John Roach Strat-on, fundamentalist leader: "Both the Governor and the attorney general did wrong. They should have permitted the members of their families to die and have died themselves rather than violate their oaths of office. An officer of the law swears to support the law and his family interests should not cut the slightest figure once he has taken the oath...