Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Hunt is known as a great humanitarian. As governor he has never signed the death warrant of any fellow human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
Born. To Frank G. Allen, Governor-elect of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Allen, a nine-pound son; in Boston...
...onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, lean and active at 63, purchased, last week, a three-masted schooner on which he will sail in March for the South Sea Islands and the Galapagos, where he will fish, observe and collect deep sea life and works. This, said Mr. Pinchot, will be the fulfillment of a dream he has dreamed since college (Yale) days. Said charming Mrs. Pinchot: ". . . Yes, Gifford should have been a doctor." Mrs. Pinchot expects to go with him on the cruise of dreams...