Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought out in a blistering letter to Senator Nye, to whom and to Senator Robinson he wished "public humiliation" for reckless statements, "demagogic slander," "infamous insinuations," "outrageous conduct...
...Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
...result, last week, Secretary of State Kellogg, Mexican Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez and Governor Fuller received copies of a letter to Governor Fuller from Senor R. G. Dommguez, Mexican Consul at Boston. ". . . An offensive phrase against the Mexicans," protested Consul Dommguez. cannot let this phrase go unheeded. . . . I duly protest before your Excellency for the harmful offense hurled by your above-mentioned employee...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, freespoken Governor of Massachusetts, has a freespoken secretary, one Herman A. MacDonald. Referring publicly to a lately deposed Massachusetts official, Secretary MacDonald called the official "nutty" and said that he was being chased by squirrels. He also called him a "Mexican General...
Angered afresh, Consul Dominguez replied instantly to Secretary MacDonald, also by special messenger: ". . . In my belief your excuse is puerile. My protest to the governor for the insult you made ... still remains until his excellency replies to me. ... In view of the seriousness and import because of my position as consul for Mexico the matter remains wholly to be settled between the head of the State and myself...