Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor may succeed himself in Virginia. The Byrd regime ends in 1930. The Byrd influence will not end, however. In managing his State machine, Governor Byrd has the aid of his other younger brother, third of the famed "Tom, Dick and Harry" trio, Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite...
...Prince stayed at the official home of Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, Governor of Kenya, over which presides Arabella, a pet crane...
...more disgraceful part of his charges. The G. O. P. at no time took official credit or responsibility for the White work. Many another cartoon was drawn about this episode. In his retraction, issued just before sailing to Europe, Editor White said : "I'm throwing no mud at. Governor Smith." A picture at once suggested itself and was drawn ? a little man on the stern of a steamer sloshing a mudball at a big man on a pier...
Glad Hand. Obviously, the sessions of the bankers were heading to a climax. Last of the important speakers was to be no less a personage than Roy Archibald Young, governor of the entire Federal Reserve system.? As the Federal Reserve had taken the lead in the war on speculation, as the credit situation was the only real issue at Philadelphia, bankers waited with intense interest for what Governor Young might say. In Manhattan, the market was uneasy...
...prophesied a terrific philippic knew Roy A. Young. Famed masters of finance have won reputations for taciturnity, austerity. But Governor Young is friendly, cheerful, talkative. He was twitted", last week, about his nickname, coined by the able financial writer for the New York World John F. Sinclair is a northwesterner, familiar with breezy phrases, breezy people. He called Governor Young, "the glad-hand artist of the Federal Reserve." The nickname stuck...