Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Socialists present were James H. Maurer, the Pennsylvania laborite; Daniel W. Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor; Joseph W. Swarts, candidate for Governor of Ohio; Norman Thomas, the blond clear-eyed ascetic-looking Manhattanite, who used to be a Christian minister, but left the pulpit for the press (The World Tomorrow, pacifist monthly). Perennially a candidate for something or other, perennially defeated, Mr. Thomas, happy champion of lost causes, was "mentioned for the Presidency" in the pre-convention gossip. So was Pennsylvania's Maurer...
...Union Theological School, Mr. Thomas used to assist at the Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, Manhattan. Few strikes of any size in or near Manhattan, few free speech fights or Sacco-Vanzetti trials, are conducted without his assistance. In 1924 he was a candidate for Governor of New York...
...Coolidge returned to Washington from Northampton, Mass. Her sick mother was better. . . . Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut and Florence Trumbull, their daughter, were invited to the White House. Mrs. Trumbull was attending a D. A. R. convention. . . . Persons who think President Coolidge should fly with Col. Lindbergh (see LETTERS) commented upon the matter-of-factness with which Governor Trumbull announced that he would fly to Washington from Hartford. He used a new Wasp-motored Ox-12 plane, piloted by an aide...
...Come on down here, Governor, and put your foot on Virginia soil," cried a man. The candidate descended and let a flagman shine a lantern in his face so that the Virginians could see what he looked like. The light gleamed on his gold fillings. The Virginians cheered...
...fiddled in vain for the political support of the gentlemen of Tennessee. Last week, the gentlemen of Tennessee, political and notable, danced attendance on Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial host to the folk who had finally elected him their chief only eight years before...