Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the convention went into session, Connecticut's John Quillin Tilson, Massachusetts' Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Michigan's Chase Salmon Osborn and Missouri's Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed...
...Channing Harris Cox, onetime (1921-24) governor of Massachusetts...
Henry J. Allen, journalist and onetime (1919-23) Governor of Kansas, famed also for his connection vith the globe-circling University Afloat (TIME...
...Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown and Mrs. Lawrence B. Van Ingen, New York; Mrs. Edward A. Leight, Chicago; Miss Elizabeth Sturges, Providence, R. I.; and the onetime Miss Maude Hunnewell, recent bride of U. S. Charge d'Affairs at London...
Bowed with shame Governor Mitsunosuke Kamiyama of Formosa resigned, last week, to expiate the stigma cast upon his administration. President Takeji Kawamura of the South Manchurian Railway Co., laid down his duties as such last week, to pop into the vacated governorship...