Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the April 9 issue of TIME, I was an ardent reader of and booster for the publication; but since reading that issue containing the wholly unnecessary account of the unfortunate tangle in which the two young sons of Ex-Governor Cox found themselves with the New York Police Department, I am "off" your magazine forever, unless appropriate amends are made...
...least, this was a most cowardly way in which to satisfy one's grievance. If you have a personal grudge against Ex-Governor Cox, why not come out like a man and state it so that he will have a fair opportunity for a reply...
...customary references to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. A woman, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said that women "crave" a President with an understanding, a human heart. She quoted Kipling's Recessional and wound up: "The country needs a leader and we offer, with entire confidence and affection, Governor Alfred E. Smith, God bless...
First is Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 54, Earl of Athlone, a brother of Queen-Empress Mary, and since 1923 His Majesty's Governor General of the Union of South Africa. All his life he has been a soldier-a smart Hussar, an impeccable Life Guard, and finally, during the South
...Governor Smith gave five sharp and sane reasons for his veto: 1) public authorities can finance bridges at lower cost than private; 2) bridges are public and the public should own them; 3) privately owned toll bridges are as old-fashioned as privately owned toll roads; 4) the particular New York franchises sought were practically perpetual; 5) if private corporations can make money on the construction of toll bridges, the government...