Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone out of the country, as no man could pay his debts." The more active members of the Board of Overseers returned to England. But for the energetic...
Connecticut. Re-elected Governor John Trumbull, Republican, of Connecticut, will soon be father-in-law of John Coolidge. He is one of the flying Governors (see Iowa, Wisconsin...
South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: "It certainly looks very...
Wisconsin. Innumerable U. S. magazine readers have seen advertisements for colored sinks, for "electric" sinks, for other plumbing fixtures manufactured by "Kohler of Kohler." The Kohler in question is Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., newly-elected Governor of Wisconsin. Gov. Kohler also keeps horses, flys an airplane. His nomination was notable in that he defeated Representative Joseph Beck, candidate of the progressive Republicans, headed by Robert La Follette...
...Clemenceau's Klotz the splendid sanitarium seemed preferable to jail-where Governor Emile Moreau of the Bank of France was trying to put him. To stern Governor Moreau a forgery is a forgery, even when perpetrated by a Senator of France. The nature of the forged paper was naturally not disclosed by the Bank; but such pressure was applied to M. Klotz that he tendered his resignation as Senator and submitted to arrest, pleading insanity, asking to be sent to Malmaison...