Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President told visitors last week that he would not be hostile to the appointment of a native as Governor of Porto Rico?but, he added cautiously, he did not wish to suggest the retirement of the present Governor, Horace Mann Towner...
...that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, can by the exercise of his right of pardon save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted murderers, from having sent through their bodies, sometime during the week of July 10, 1927, a current of electricity sufficiently powerful to cause their deaths...
Many a humble Boston officeworker, snatching a hasty and economical midday lunch at a Thompson's restaurant where food is balanced on the broad-arm of a one-armed chair and 50c buys abundant calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking...
Soon to the concert of M. Paderewski came the Governor General, but found no Pole upon the platform. Nettled, His Excellency marched to his seat, stood frigidly awaiting some apology or amend from Pianist Paderewski who, just then, walked upon the stage...
...world can but listen to and applaud. Baron Stonehaven, vexed, sat down. Next day His Excellency released to the press a letter to M. Paderewski in which the great Pole was formally rebuked for "insulting His Majesty the King as represented in the person of His Excellency the Governor General...