Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rising early on San Juan Hill and staying up late, he worked and reworked, in longhand, his speech accepting the nomination. He conferred constantly with visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval...
...accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist (TIME, July 23). Editor White had engaged two investigators to scour the New York Assembly's Journal. Last week, armed with a mass of documents including photostats, he spoke forth again. He said: "Governor Smith has been a busy man, a fine, useful American citizen since he left the New York Assembly [in 1915]. But, in his many activities, he has forgotten much of his Assembly record. . . . "He, with all his intelligence, with all his honesty, with all his courage-seems to have left...
Montagu Collet Norman, witty Governor of the Bank of England...
...Washington, a man named Roy A. Young presides day by day over the Federal Reserve Board, central authority of the twelve regional banks. In Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, sit Governors with as much authority as clothes the Governor of New York's bank. But when Benjamin Strong, lean, nervous, enters the doors of the Bank of England, or when Benjamin Strong, ill, receives the foreign chiefs in Manhattan, no Wall Streeter thinks of the quiet, unostentatious figure in the Treasury building's spacious offices. And certainly no Streeter thinks of such an untraveled, provincial person as a banker...
...lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn a living. This she did, being of artistic...