Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held before the literary exercises, and then at 11.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre the oration and ode will be delivered. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York is the orator and Assistant Professor Robert S. Hillyer '17 of Harvard University is the poet. Dr. W. S. Thayer '85 of Baltimore will preside...
...Were the Governor-guests ranked around the conference table the way their States ranked in oil-production, the youngest executive would sit at the head. Gov. Dan Moody (lower left on front cover) of Texas is 36. His State recently has been exuding oil at the terrific rate of approximately 780,000 barrels...
...Governor Kohler has been a wet-Dry, a dry-Wet, in politics. In approving the end of Wisconsin's enforcement he warned Wisconsinites not to be misled "into the belief that traffic in intoxicating liquors . . . has become lawful or that the saloon will return. The Constitution of the U. S., the Volstead Act, and the Jones Law are still in full force and effect...
Elected. David Belasco, famed Manhattan theatrical producer; as a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England...