Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Sept. 24 issue a Mr. L. F. Southwick seemed annoyed by Governor Smith's 'poisonal' and 'detoimined' remarks. Would he purchase an expensive loud speaker and entirely ignore looking at what there is under the cover of the radio set itself? I advise him never to examine a man's tongue to determine what is on his mind...
...street. Two men got out of the first car. Came a policeman, who was surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed. In the wrecked car were Wilfred Veno, professional hockey player, with a fractured skull and a slash across his neck...
Appointments and commissions filled William Howard Taft's years-the Philippine Commission, first Governor of the Philippines, a conference with Pope Leo XIII. President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904-an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Wherever he went, he acquired weight and respect...
...Herbert Hoover carries no timidity of defeat in his heart. He has the amazing spiritual leadership to make each law-abiding household want to do its bit. Governor Smith says it can't be done. With Herbert Hoover we know it CAN be done...
...course, Tammany's Governor may be equal to the task of reforming Tammany, but I want to say far above a whisper that I doubt...