Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
...after whom as a former Secretary of the Treasury, one of the buildings is named, and the Honorable F. W. Dallinger, Congressman from Massachusetts, will represent the Fedral Government. The Honorable Wellington Wells, President of the Massachusetts Senate, will represent the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the absence of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor...
This choice specimen of local inanity appeared last night in the columns of the Transcript as a portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...
...Governor Fuller deserves praise for his latest decision in the review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, both because he has seen fit to seek unofficial advice and because of the excellence of his choice. The three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity...
...Wellington Wells '90, President of the Massachusetts Senate, will represent the Commonwealth because of the absence of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. F. W. Dallinger '93, Congressman from Massachusetts, also will be present as well as Carter Glass, United States Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Treasury, after whom one of the dormitories has been named...