Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week one more Canadian province seemed likely to re-enter the Wet list. In the New Brunswick Legislature, Lieutenant Governor William F. Todd, committed the Government to "important provisions in connection with the sale of intoxicating liquor." As the present administration has a three-fourths majority in the legislature, any liquor control bill it submits could be easily put through...
...Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them...
...state has at present a woman governor. (Ferguson has been defeated in Texas; Ross in Colorado...
...Oklahoma Senate, officially but not individually, declined to continue the embarrassment of Governor Henry Simpson Johnston when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover...