Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a U. S. preacher says "vice," all of his listeners take him to mean sexual vice, or even more specifically fornication. There is little that a U. S. President or a State Governor or legislator can do about fornication except to avoid this sin himself. Indeed the only thing he can do is to make difficult the practice of the ancient profession of prostitution, which is a commercialized and variously well or badly organized form of fornication-usually regarded as the lowest form...
...newspapers, Dr. Straton promptly agreed to the debate, and made almost hourly suggestions, such as a return debate in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a continuation of the debate in a dozen southern cities, and that the largest Manhattan auditorium be selected in preference to Calvary Church. The Governor would have none of these. He desired merely to defend his reputation as a (sexually) right-thinking man before the congregation before which he believed he had been slandered by innuendo...
Died. Edwin M. Carter, 60, Manhattan broker (Carter & Co.), since 1918 a governor of the New York Stock Exchange; of heart disease; in Allenhurst...
Died. William S. Taylor, 76, onetime (1900) governor of Kentucky, self-exiled to Indiana following the assassination of his Democratic rival, William Goebel (see p. 12); of heart disease; in Indianapolis...
Died. John C. Cutler, 82, president of the Deseret National Bank of Salt Lake City, onetime (1905-09) governor of Utah; by suicide; in Salt Lake City...