Word: governors
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This evening at 8 o'clock the Harvard Republican Club will hold a large opening meeting in the Harvard Union. The meeting will be preceded by a dinner at 6.45 o'clock which the Union will give in honor of three speakers: Lieutenant-Governor Alleu, present Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts, Henry Parkman Jr. '15, a member of the House of Representatives who defeated Innes and wrecked a machine in the last congressional election, and Congressman Beedy, Republican Representative from the first Maine congressional district. There will be several guests at the dinner and the executive committee...
Glad-hand tactics have carried Roy Young far. At 18 he was a messenger boy in the Marquette (Mich.) bank. At 37 he was head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the youngest governor in the system. Every U. S. banking tycoon knows and likes his pleasant, florid face, his easy, vigorous anecdotes. He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman...
Thus, with a glad hand, did Governor Young wave aside any little unpleasantness about speculation. The Wall Street bulls beamed with relief. The press was amazed. Said Writer B. C. Forbes, bluntly, in the New York (Hearst) American: "He said nothing. Either he was muzzled by the Washington powers that be, or more likely, he muzzled himself. A high-powered shell proved to be a dud. Politics, presidential elections, are responsible for more than making strange bed-fellows...
...There are 12 banks in the system. Most important, for psychological reasons, is the New York unit. But its governor, Benjamin Strong, was neither speaker nor delegate in Philadelphia. He lay seriously ill in a Manhattan hospital after an operation for an intestinal ulcer...
Congressman Beede of Maine, Francis Parkman 18, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee and Lieutenant-Governor Allen, Republican candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts will deliver addresses before the meeting...