Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...
...Governor. Lennington Small, the Governor, was overwhelmingly defeated for renomination by Louis L. Emmerson, who had been Secretary of State, since 1916. Mr. Small's reputation had been thoroughly discredited. Trying to save himself he entered alliance with his oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...
...other incumbent is adipose, leonine Richard Yates, onetime (1901-05) Governor of Illinois, an aging person whose chief distinction in the House was that his name alone began with "Y" (until this year, when Representative Tom A. Yon arrived from Florida...
...Governor Small is also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...Majesty's Governor General, slender, serene, punctilious Viscount Willingdon, began last week to enjoy a brief spring holiday on the Pacific coast of Canada, some 2,200 miles from Ottawa, his Capitol...