Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding feature of the opening address of Governor-General Henry L. Stimson to the Philippine Legislature, published last week by the U. S. War Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion...
Case 1. A New Yorker named Saunders was wanted in Georgia for alleged stock-swindling there between June, 1926 and April, 1927. Counsel for the defendant was a friend and supporter of Governor Smith's, a State Senator. The defense was an alibi, that the defendant was not in Georgia after February, 1926. Governor Smith started to gather up the papers on the case as though satisfied with the alibi. The U. S. Postal Inspector who had arrested Saunders, passed a letter to the Governor. The latter eyed it, eyed Saunders sharply, swore him, assured him that perjury...
...overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...
Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island...
...Hicksville, N. Y., last fortnight, Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York, famed attorney for the U. S. Steel Corp., successfully defended a butler for shooting a monkey (TIME, July...