Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the week was out Mr. Smith had been called to that membership in the Adventurers' Club of Manhattan which was made vacant by the death of Governor General of the Philippines Leonard Wood...
...Warner's father, in whose presidential chances the Vatican is reported to have no interest, was pleased to hear of his daughter's devoutness and, when urged to comment, gently turned the conversation aside, into travel. "Distance doesn't mean much to the younger generation," said Governor Smith. "Here am I, past fifty, and it was only a few years ago that I traveled as far as Canada...
Rushing to a rally at East St. Louis last week, Governor Len Small of Illinois let his chauffeur "step on it." Near Girard, Ill., the Small car overtook a car occupied by two country men. Honking loudly, roaring on, the Small chauffeur whizzed alongside, cut in sharply, sideswiped the country men, ditched them, bruised them, cut them, embarrassed Governor Small...
North Carolinians assembled in an auditorium at Charlotte one evening last week to see and hear what sort of person was Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the woman whom Wyoming elected three years ago to fill out her deceased husband's term as Governor (1925-27). Mrs. Ross soon demonstrated her femininity. Down an aisle, terrified by the surrounding forest of North Carolina feet and ankles, scampered a mouse. "If I appear a bit disconcerted," shrilled Mrs. Ross, "It's because a woman may be a governor but she's always afraid of a mouse. If it comes...
Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...