Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, most accurate of journals, is in error (issue of July 16, p. 34, col. 3) as to the first governor of colonial Virginia. Edward Maria Wingfield was the first governor of the colony...
...Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but business is chiefly in the hands of people from...
...Mary Harriman Rumsey, Republican daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. Reason: the Smith record as governor, Prohibition...
...white Texas primary held last week returned Governor Dan Moody for re-election by some 100,000 votes. T. B. Love, loudspoken anti-Smithist, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran some 80,000 votes behind Barry Miller, pro-Smith. Senator Earle B. Mayfield was close-pressed in defending his seat from ambitious Representative Tom Connally...
...week as he was about to leave Rome for Canada. But Cardinal Cerretti, who intends to cross the U. S. from the Eucharistic Conference at Sydney, Australia, may wander about the states all he pleases. He will not arrive at San Francisco until after the election. Prince Rebuffed. The Governor (mayor) of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, was refused an annullment of his marriage by the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota,* which rejected his contention that he is not really the husband of Princess Potenziani because their marriage ceremony was "performed without her full consent...