Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beaver Man. There were several reasons to suppose that 95% was an extravagant figure to quote in this question. President Hans A. Koenig of the Milwaukee Steuben Society said: "Nothing could be more ridiculous than such statements. The sentiment of the German-Americans of Wisconsin is overwhelmingly for Governor Smith...
Second Stroke? Having obtained General Motors' Raskob for his national manager, Nominee Smith was reported to be seeking General Electric's Young-Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Company-for his local lieutenant as Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. That would be a second stroke in the effort to show the country that there are big business brains beneath the Brown Derby...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
Nathan L. Miller, onetime (1920-22) Governor of New York, famed U. S. Steel attorney, was retained last week by Verner Reed, wealthy onetime Denverite, to defend a butler against a charge of cruelty to animals. The butler was Felix Solomon, who two weeks ago shot and killed a neighbor's monkey that had invaded the Reed estate and was threatening two Reed infants...
...trial, which was attended by many persons of large fortune and social inclinations, onetime Governor Miller denounced the monkey and eloquently praised the menial who had murdered him. "Monkeys are wild animals," remarked Nathan Miller, "no game laws protect them, their bites are dangerous and the late King Alexander of Greece died from the effects of being bitten by an ape. This charge is ridiculous. It would be a fine country if property could be invaded by wild animals without any opportunity being provided to stop them...