Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barbershop at Memphis, Tenn., last week. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Governor of Mississippi, was being-shaved. In the next chair, Governor Henry H. Horton of Tennessee was being shaved...
...Said Governor Horton: "How's politics down your...
...Governor Bilbo: Oh, soso. Looks pretty easy for Smith. Think he'll carry the State by 15 to 1. How about Tennessee...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...
...great Chinese Puzzle Issue in the campaign. At Sedalia, Nominee Smith said the Government's fiscal reports were ''about as near a Chinese puzzle as anything I ever saw in my life.'' Mr. Mellon retorted that this was "perhaps the most accurate statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century, what must it be to the fellow on the sidewalk? . . . I frankly admit...