Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House over the health of Mrs. Coolidge's mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue. Mrs. Coolidge passed the week near the sickbed in Northampton, Mass. With her she had taken Blackberry, a fuzzy, black chow-dog. She gave Blackberry to Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor and friend of her son John...
...sure that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood, son of the late Representative Henry D. Flood of Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, the President's oldtime (1923-25) private secretary, called and offered the Swannanoa Country Club, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only four hours from Washington. . . . President Coolidge...
...Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion of small-town Ohioans, he remained. President he was not destined to be but he died at the peak of his endeavor in that direction. Ohio wept him. The Senate mourned him. The country noticed that he was gone...
...appointing Senator Vandenberg, Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan stressed the advantage of youth as a qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...
...Governor Fuller, Secretary of War Davis, and W. J. Bingham, Director of Harvard Athletics, are unanimously of the opinion that the general public of Boston would get an edifying thrill out of witnessing the drill of the West Point corps on Boston Common the morning of the day of the game. Even at this early date negotiations are being made with the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Furthermore, it is a tentative proposal that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts be given the privilege of being host to the 1200 cadets at a luncheon at the Commonwealth Armory after...