Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp fight, too. Dan Moody, young Governor of Texas, sat with Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Beside them were two Wilson Cabinet men, Josephus Daniels and Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good...
Justice wondered where to turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine made the error several years ago of seeming friendly to the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is now dead in Maine, as elsewhere, but the smudge of pitch lasts long. Governor Brewster tried to oust U. S. Senator Frederick Hale in Maine's Republican primary last week. He reminded the voters that Senator Hale voted to seat U. S. Senators-suspect Vare and Smith. But the Hale men reminded the voters of Governor Brewster's onetime Klannishness. Senator Hale was renominated by a margin of some 30,000 votes...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...
...autos were used to carry the Rotarians about the city; 80 typists copied registration lists so that no Rotarian might remain unnoticed. Before long all the Rotarians gathered in the municipal auditorium, second largest in the U. S., third in the world, and listened to speeches, notably one by Governor Theodore Christianson of Minnesota, who said slyly...