Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contest between Governor Alfred E. Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and adoption of a plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...
...convention will probably last two nights. Tonight the chief features of the program will be the keynote and nomination speeches, the adoption of a platform, and the first ballots for a Presidential candidate. Strong opposition to the nomination of Governor Smith has made itself felt in the Harvard Democratic ranks, and an intense and prolonged contest may result. A hot struggle is likely tonight over the prohibition plank in the platform...
...Governor of Naples, Commander Nicola Sansanelli, stepped down upon Manhattan from the same ship as did the Governor of Rome (see above), but promptly withdrew from public notice to further quietly the work of F. I. D. A. C. (The Interallied Society of War Veterans) of which he is President...
...When I returned to the World after a witch's Sabbatical, they told me I should blow off steam in The Nation. They told me there was no governor on that steam. Previously the World maintained its right to censor what I wrote for them. Now it wants to censor what I write elsewhere. After the tradition of Uncle Tom, I can still say that, while my body may have belonged to the Press Publishing Company, my soul belonged...
...Republican or Democratic nominee. Herbert Hoover may or may not be an efficient secretary of commerce; we do know, however, that he sat silent in the very cabinet that nursed the foulest national scandal in our history. That Al Smith is a regular feller and a good governor, we won't deny; but exactly what he stands for, no one has yet been able to discover...