Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of this unfortunate state of affairs, Governor Johnson continued to speak throughout the state in favor of the candidacy of Mr. Hughes and to ardently and vigorously urge his election. Governor Johnson's speeches were widely quoted by the Republican press and were used in every way to further Mr. Hughes' election. . . . However, the progressive element in the State of California, which was then in the majority, rightly or wrongly became convinced that Mr. Hughes intended to align himself with the reactionary element of the party and to ignore progressive men and principles in his administration...
...rage over the result on the part of the reactionary element of the party in California knew no bounds. They realized that in their efforts to defeat Governor Johnson for the senatorship, and to use Mr. Hughes against him, they had only defeated Mr. Hughes, for Governor Johnson was elected U. S. Senator by a large majority, while Hughes failed to carry the state...
...open season for Governors in the South last week. Twenty of them gathered at New Orleans to confer. The most eminent Governor of all, New York's Smith, was not far from New Orleans, golfing and fishing at Biloxi, Miss. But he did not "take in" the conference. Maryland's Ritchie was over in Florida, but he, too, kept his vacation inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller...
Speculation in securities and agricultural products was causing several Governors deep concern. Alabama's Graves observed that speculative loans "right now" exceeded what had been loaned to planters to produce the next cotton crop. He viewed with alarm the Federal Reserve effort to discourage market gambling by jacking up interest Crates because the effect of this policy is to make borrowing injuriously expensive for "legitimate business." "There is nothing wrong with America except the evils of mad gambling in stocks and cotton," announced Governor Graves. Iowa's Hamill and Nebraska's McMullen (chairman of the conference) agreed...
...kind of citizens with whom he likes to think and work. Their "road to plenty" has much the same idealistic ring as his own "abolishing poverty." Their job reserve plan served as an exegesis of his own campaign promise of a large continuous public works program. So he authorized Governor Brewster of Maine to explain the job reserve at the Governor's conference in New Orleans last week (see col. 1) and to announce it as an outline of the Hoover plan for protecting Coolidge prosperity...