Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...beat out Henry Ford as Michigan's "favorite son" at the National Democratic Convention four years ago? He joined his colleague on the front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected "good gray governor" of Michigan (1913-16) and first Democrat to be sent to the Senate from that State in 70 years?quietly, unostentatiously died of pneumonia...
...Cambridge. The same is true of Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge by half a million, that Smith, a Democrat should have been four times reelected governor...
Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican, not wishing to be left out of the wordfest, said that Mr. Sinclair had also contributed to the campaign fund of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, in 1920. In that campaign, Governor Smith met his only popular defeat at the hands of Nathan L. Miller, who was later an attorney for Sinclair-partner Harry M. Blackmer...
...murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time had done more than watch the sudden noisy game of war that his people were playing in the lazy island. He had learned how to write his last name and he had become a soldier, a general, a governor under Dessalines. When Dessalines died, Henry Christophe was made president for four years, then appointed King...