Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
...Agassiz's personal charm and earnestness gained her great triumph for the society in overcoming the opposition of the Committee on Education, at the State House, on Feb. 28, 1894. She received the major credit for effecting the incorporation of Radcliffe College, which the Governor authorized by his signature on March 23, 1894. Many honors were awarded to her and all Radcliffe felt its loss when she resigned the presidency...
...serve as fair and impartial judges of his case, had sat on platforms from which Gov. Long was haranguing crowds in his own defense. With the opportunity of a full trial on the evidence thus excluded, the remaining 24 Senators flayed their colleagues' "locked minds" and adjourned. The Governor's enemies promptly began talk of a special election for his recall...
When the Senate trial was balked, the Governor, in a white linen suit, held a reception in his office beneath the Senate Chamber. Admirers swarmed about, demanded his autograph. He gave it thus: "Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana by the grace of the people...
Last week, with the well-equipped Kwangsi armies only 25 miles away, the wily aristocratic Governor of Kwantung, General Chen Ming-chu, sent out a messenger to the Kwangsi rebels. Would the honorable enemy cease its advance on defenseless Canton in return for a sub stantial cash award? The practical-minded Kwangsi generals thought they would, but considering their favorable tactical position, the ransom must be a heavy...