Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio and defeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...charm the Dakotas, Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota would be the man. It was not solely to see the Atlantic Ocean for the first time that Governor Bulow went to New York last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). The Dakotas, however, have but five electoral votes apiece. As vice-presidential material, Governor Bulow seemed just about half as likely as Cordell Hull...
...other names prominently mentioned for Number Two Man last week were Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, because all Democrats know him as their able party leader in the Senate; and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, because he is dry, and chiefly because his hold upon Ohio, with 24 electoral votes, is an outstanding phenomenon of U. S. politics. It was not solely to improve his health that Governor Donahey prepared last week to make an extensive tour of the South...
...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
...Governor of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, tall and of cadaverous countenance, reached Manhattan last week on the liner Conte Biancamano to return the visit made to Rome last year by jaunty New York Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Prince Potenziani's governship of Rome is a mayoralty with added dictatorial powers. He is of ancient aristocratic family but likes to drive a motor car with as much reckless speed as does Dictator Benito Mussolini himself, and is skilled in the gentlemanly art of swordplay. He was accompanied by his athletic, vivacious daughter, Princess Miriam. Orating at Manhattan...