Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some forty pages. Thomas H. Dickinson analyzes Governor Alfred E. Smith in THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN AS GOVERNOR (The MacMillian Co., New York, 1928. $1.) and finds him pleasing to the eye and mind. The moral quality of loyalty, the mental quality of mastery, he finds, have made Smith what he is, and will, perhaps, make him what his many supporters hope he will be. There is a foreword by George Foster Peabody...
...race. There is a Farmer-Labor party, a Prohibition party even in these dry times, and until 1924 the Socialists also had a man in the field. Then they were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates and a platform...
John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...
...Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits-$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff...
...States and the temporary State chairmen will begin active organizations of their delegations for the mock convention. The speech of Senator Walsh of Montana won him many new supporters among the Harvard Democrats, and before May 15 Senator James Reed of Missouri, another Presidential candidate, may come to Cambridge. Governor Smith of New York has declined all invitations to speak outside of New York State...