Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge: "You can do anything you like here [New York] provided you don't get caught." Said President Coolidge to Governor Smith: "Well, I'll take a chance." Such, newsgatherers discovered, was the nub of the conversation when, last fortnight, Governor Smith ascended from his 15th story room in the Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, to welcome President Coolidge, who was stopping on the 17th floor the evening he addressed the United Press (TIME...
President Lowell, on behalf of Harvard, will deliver the bridge to the Commonwealth and it will be received by Governor Alvan T. Fuller. An address will then be given by the Hon. James J. Davis. Another piece from the Glee Club will be followed by a benediction by the Reverend P. S. Phalen...
Married. Dorothy Wadsworth Yates, daughter of Illinois Congressman Richard Yates (onetime [1901-05] Governor of Illinois); to John Wishart Henderson, Scotsman; in Washington. Present were President & Mrs. Coolidge and many another...
...Tuesday a group of Law School professors headed by Dean Roscoe Pond Hon, '20 dispatched to Governor Fuller a petition requesting the appointment of a committee to investigate further the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. The following article was written especially for the Crimson by F. H. Bohlen, Langdell Professor of Law, who explains the true function of a committee such as the one whose creation is advocated...
...cannot imagine how anyone can suppose that a request to the Governor to appoint an impartial commission to review the facts can imply any criticism or disrespect for the Supreme Judicial Court or even for the Trial Judge. The Supreme Judicial Court has declared itself precluded by its own decisions from considering the credibility or weight of the testimony offered at the trial or of the affidavits presented as grounds for a new trial. This being so, an appeal to the Governor to appoint a commission a review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery...