Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Gardner...
...alumnus of the University of North Carolina, seeing the reference in your July 29 issue to North Carolina's Governor O. Max Gardner, wrote me about setting you straight. The point in error was that Max Gardner played football at State College. You were right; he did. But the alumnus is also right; Governor Max also played football at the University. Your error, then, was one of omission...
Correspondents, waked out of Christmastime daydreams, rushed to their typewriters. In dull news season, Congressman Upshaw made many a first page next morning. A few days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every...
Diplomatic pressure from the Great Powers mobilized by U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, last week virtually imposed peace between Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. Dictator-Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria, commander of China's first line of defense, even found leisure to pose and talk pidgin English for U. S. Movietone minions...
Miss Anna W. Pennypacker, daughter of the late Samuel W. Pennypacker (onetime [1903-07] Governor of Pennsylvania), was arrested when police raided a meeting of the Workers' International Relief in Philadelphia. Released the next morning she said: "I went to the meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...