Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conferred, reputedly concerning appointments of judges in Western and Northern New York, with Charles S. Whitman (onetime Governor of New York) and members of the New York...
Brennan on Woollen. Commenting on the Woollen candidacy last week, George E. Brennan, Illinois Democratic boss, supporter of Governor Smith, said: "Tom Taggart always has his water buckets out in case it should rain...
...Roosevelt, who still walked with the aid of a cane, discussed a six months' tour of the South, undertaken, he said, in the interests of "party unity." But Mr. Roosevelt, who was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920, is generally regarded as the unofficial manager of Governor Smith's unofficial campaign for the presidential nomination...
Said Mr. Roosevelt: "I found among them [Southern Democratic leaders] a growing conviction that Governor Smith was the man with the best chance of winning. While the leaders haven't come out for him for the nomination, they will support him, in my opinion, once he is nominated...
Though some anti-Smith Democrats have attempted to start a Franklin D. Roosevelt movement, Mr. Roosevelt muffled this boom by announcing that he would not permit his name to come before the 1928 nominating convention, was with Governor Smith to stay...