Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herald Tribune had not only the parent's belief, but Governor Smith's secretary's word, that Governor Smith knew nothing of the case...
Their obvious intent was to please their Governor. The obvious intent of the Herald Tribune's headline was to blackguard...
...When Governor Smith heard what happened, he said: "If the Conservation Department has taken that spotted fawn [which he had named First Ballot] from a crippled boy, I'll send it back to him so quickly, you won't see it for dust. Yes, I'll send him back another one with it and a dog if he wants...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
Married. C. Shelby Carter, descendant of King Carter, first governor of colonial Virginia, great-great-grandson of Col. Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and hero of King's Mountain Battle; to Mary Spingler King, scioness of the Van Beuren family; at Convent...