Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When the Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights...
...York Harbor, opposite where the Hudson and East Rivers meet, lies diminutive Governor's Island, known to military men as Fort Jay. Ceded to the U. S. in 1800, it was once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
...many an aviation expert, to Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...will of Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, onetime Governor of Ohio, was filed last week. Chief bequests: $50,000 to the Herrick Public Library of Wellington, Ohio,* for the construction of a children's library wing; $20,000 for the optional use of the library trustees; a $15,000 endowment fund to the American Hospital at Neuilly, just outside Paris. Estimated net value of the Herrick estate...
...confused with Roland Harty Spaulding, New Hampshire manufacturer, onetime (1915-16) New Hampshire governor...