Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor, Candidate Smith ordered his son-in-law, Major J. A. Warner, to send a corps of state troopers to Janesville, N. Y., to protect Senator James Thomas Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Just before Senator Heflin began to speak, the platform on which he and 50 others were standing crashed to the ground. Many were bruised; no one was seriously injured. The troopers kept the excited multitude of 10,000 Klansmen and "other patriots" in order. Shaken but unruffled, Senator Heflin climbed on a safe corner of the wreck and heffled for two hours...
...asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris Cox of Massachusetts had been blocked by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who wanted the nomination himself and would let no other Massachusetts man get ahead. The Curtis compromise resulted between 7 and 8 a. m. in a hotel room full of sleep-starved...
...Said Governor Ritchie: "We should have a national conservatory, an opera sponsored by the U. S. government. . . . Music is the one international language. We have the right to expect every great national government to aid and nourish it, and every one does, save only the United States of America...
...comfortable Commodore. They wished to discuss business, the business of marketing musical instruments, from morning to noon and to amuse themselves throughout the rest of the day. Some of their frivolities were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School of Music . . . distinguished author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Wolcott is the son of the late Roger Wolcott '70, who while he was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, was also a Harvard Commencement marshall...