Word: governors
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Lowell Schmaltz was supposed to have known Calvin Coolidge only during the half-year that he (Mr. Schmaltz) was a freshman classmate of Mr. Coolidge's at Amherst. Edward F. Horrigan knew Calvin Coolidge when he (Mr. Coolidge) was Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Horrigan was one of Governor Coolidge's aides...
...primary on May Day, Candidate Smith inspected his campaign headquarters at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, and approved the selection of George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again in 1923, Governor Smith appointed him to the Public Service Commission. Than George R. Van Namee, Candidate Smith could have...
...effect that day. Aged 71, having served as U. S. Treasurer since 1921, Col. White was going to be president of the newly formed Southern Mortgage Guaranty Corp. of Chattanooga, Tenn. People in Washington knew that Chattanooga was gaining a gallant citizen. Col. White was North Dakota's Governor in 1901-1905. He commanded an infantry regiment...
Second of the new Garter-Knights is James Albert Edward Hamilton, 58, Duke of Abercorn, who has earned his reward by faithful and occasional perilous service as the Governor of Northern Ireland since the troublous times...
...Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts bought a carpet. All of Judge Gary's things were "good," that is, authentic...