Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Moody was for taking in a minority report and declaring flatly against any modification of Prohibition. With Nominee Smith's stand for modification so well-known, this would undoubtedly have precipitated grave trouble in the convention. Senator Glass was the mediator, finally, and even Bishop Cannon approved the law-enforcement phrases which were unanimously adopted...
...other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect and delivered what all critics agreed was the most intelligently well-bred speech of either of the big conventions. He recited his friend's fitness for office in terms of his record in office. He offered him as a governor who had "power to impart knowledge of, and create interest in, government." He said, in an even voice that was more persuasive than any Bryanesque blaring could have been, that his friend had "that quality of soul which makes a man loved ... a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble...
...Taylor Robinson, Arkansan leader of the Senate Democrats, for Vice President of the U. S. He received more than 800 votes (733? were necessary to nominate) before the "switches" began. Final results: Robinson, 1,035 1/6; Major-General Henry T. Allen (Kentucky), 21; Major George L. Berry (Tennessee), 11½; Governor Dan Moody (Texas), 9?; Senator Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky), 9; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher (Florida), 7; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (Wyoming), 2; Lewis G. Stevenson (Illinois), 2; Evans Woollen (Indiana), 2; not voting...
...Legislature. He had just been graduated in law from the University of Virginia and had started practicing in his native shack town of Lonoke, Ark. In 1902 he "talked his way" into Congress, serving five terms in the House. In 1913, he resigned from Congress to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas. A fortnight later, Senator Jeff Davis* died and Governor Robinson was elected to replace...
...Governor of New York, alert at Albany, spent three successive evenings beside his radio. It was a long time to wait for one announcement but he bore up cheerfully. The long sittings made historic a small, thickly upholstered sofa and a ponderous, brindled Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than...