Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with indignation a statement made by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the reaction to Mr. Smith's defeat "can only be compared to that which followed the theft of the Presidency in the case of Mr. Tilden...
...Bigotry," said Governor Roosevelt, "ignorance of Democratic principles; the spread by unspeakable and un-American methods of the most atrocious falsehoods; unfair and improper pressure brought to bear upon workers in specially favored Republican industries, false claims for the prosperity of the country and kindred propaganda, cheated, so my correspondents feel, our party out of the Presidency." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune replied: "If Governor Roosevelt and his correspondents have any evidence of illegal attempts to influence the 1928 election, that evidence ought to go to the legislature or the courts. Even then the reference to the Tilden...
...significant rumor came from Mr. Hoover. Newsmen asked him whether he would see President-Reject Smith. To the query the President-Elect replied: "By all means I should be glad if Governor Smith has the time to call. I should be most happy...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Governor of New York and Alumni Marshal for this year's commencement, was President of the CRIMSON during the year in which the above letter was published. Commenting editorially in the issue containing the letter, the CRIMSON states...
...affairs of his party, and his utterances and writings have had much influence among Republicans in the East. President Aydelotte of Swarthmore not only runs a coeducational college and supervises the Rhodes Scholar selections, but is active in the cause of world peace. Here in Massachusetts when the Governor desired an impartial committee to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, two of the three men chosen were the heads of the most important educational institutions in the state...