Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain, lots of it, will bring sunshine to Al Smith-or shall it be Governor Ritchie...
Detur prizes have been presented to Harvard students since 1637, when Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America, and who was several times Governor of the Connecticut Colony, made important educational be quests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times. The Detur prizes are among the oldest to be given at Harvard...
Protestants, viewing these points of variance with alarm, wonder how Governor Smith will grasp the horns of the dilemma. New York Democrats are confident; they have seen him discharge the public trusts for 25 years...
...company, Photomaton Inc. Soon street sheiks, titian cashiers, small-scale honeymooners and spreeing butter-and-eggers will start raining quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour, and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors of half-moon parlors. Photomaton Inc. looks for lively trade from police departments, commutation ticket offices, license bureaus-wherever quick recording and identification are needed. Meantime Inventor...
...Judge Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that Judge Dearth had in a variety of ways, "fixed" < his juries to give the verdicts which he, as Judge, desired. The trial moved along, strewn with puns about "dearth" a,nd "justice"; with Lieut. Governor F. Harold Van Orman of Indiana presiding; with grinning newsboys as witnesses, making the eminent senators laugh; with President Benjamin Harrison's son and grandson present, the one in the Senate, the other as one of the prosecutors from the House-and with the gadfly who brought...