Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
Mayor Walker had been chosen to make the big speech and accept the memorial for the nation partly because he had helped raise the money, partly because friends of Governor Smith were influential in the memorial association, partly because James John Walker, regarded as a "wisecracker" at home, is accounted a popular orator in the South...
Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...
Last week, Secretary MacDonald wrote another letter, this time to Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, rebuking him for declaring in favor of John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut for Vice President. Secretary MacDonald gave the impression that Governor Fuller wanted to be Vice President...
...When Governor Fuller heard about it, he explained to Representative Treadway: "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters. I must tell him to restrain his boyish enthusiasm...