Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...
...front cover) It is sometimes said that for prestige and power, for responsibility and reward, the three "biggest" elective offices in the U. S. are: 1) President of the U. S.; 2) Governor of the State of New York; 3) Mayor of the City of New York. Job No. 2 sometimes leads on to Job No. i (Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt). Sometimes it does not lead there (Hughes, Smith). From Job No. 3, however, since the rechartering of New York City (1898), no man has advanced from...
...necessary," said black-bearded, unibrachial General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to perpetuate the memory of those battles in which the enemy resorted for the first time to a procedure which the inscription upon this monument describes with justice as abominable...
...months ago the insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains...
Died. Henry Roberts, 76, Hartford, Conn., financier (banks, public utilities), onetime (1905-07) governor of Connecticut; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford...