Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Al. Smith a drinking...
...hearts and gained the confidence of a great multitude, and that he was beginning to be honestly taken as an unterrified champion of the poor and helpless," says Writer Winkler. Yet Hearst was never again elected to any other important public office, though he tried for senator and governor and, at one time, boomed himself for the presidency. The man who finally spiked the political guns of Hearst was Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York...
...Governor Smith was present in cap & gown to see his good friend honored. Said he: "I am a F. F. M. man-Fulton Fish Market...
Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England...
Harry F. Byrd, governor of Virginia, telephoned from the capitol at Richmond to Paris for the purpose of telling Julian Green that his novel, The Closed Garden, was great and to invite him to return to Richmond as guest of the Byrds. Novelist Green, Virginia native, does his writing in France...