Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sorting mail at the Burlington Ave. Station, Boston, last week, Postoffice Clerk Frank W. Steele came upon a suspicious-looking package, five inches long, four inches wide. Wired to the parcel was an envelope, with the address "Mr. Governor of Massachusetts" written in an illiterate hand. Mr. Steele pitched the bundle to one side, continued sorting mail...
...Governor of Massachusetts...
Meanwhile came no announcement from Governor Fuller...
...Democratic Party is hopelessly split between supporters of William G. McAdoo and Governor Alfred E. Smith. Nor can any other male Democrat unite the Party...
...measure; the man who made it wet again is Prime Minister G. Howard Ferguson. He said that under Prohibition, doctors wrote 1,500,000 liquor prescriptions a year; that 50 persons in Ontario died from poisonous liquor; that the Province was "saturated" with illegally sold liquor. Said Governor Ferguson: "Unless this thing was settled I would not care to be Prime Minister for another hour." In December, 1926, elections, the people elected a legislature pledged 2 to 1 in favor of the Ferguson plan of government liquor control...