Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Ritchie spoke chiefly in Dry districts to audiences whose grandfathers for the most part once sang lustily their intention of hanging Jefferson Davis (another famed state rights advocate) to a sour apple tree...
...Omaha the "high spot" in his speech came when he said that "a man's religion ought never be a factor in his right to hold office." The crowd wildly cheered the reference to Alfred E. Smith. Observers agreed, however, that Governor Ritchie made an excellent personal impression upon both Generals and Privates of the Western Democratic army. They pointed out that Governor Ritchie's wetness is known but that Governor Smith's is notorious; that Governor Ritchie's nomination would raise no "Romanist" bugaboo; that though the Maryland Governor might bring to the Democratic convention...
Lowden. Some 20,000 graduates of western and mid-western colleges received a letter from the Lowden-for-President Association of New York, Inc. The letter maintained that unless Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, is nominated, western and mid-western states will go Democratic in 1928. Mr. Lowden is a graduate of Iowa State University and of the Union College of Law, Chicago; holds honorary degrees from Knox College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado...
True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...