Word: governors
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...Messrs. Roxas, Osmena and Alunan went into conference with Secretary Stimson in his role as onetime Governor-General of the Philippines. Mr. Alunan had once been president of the Philippine Sugar Association and, in his official capacity as Secretary of Agriculture, he foresees only ruin for the Island's industry if the U. S. taxes their chief product. Secretary Stimson was sympathetic. He went before the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee last week as an evangel for free Philippine sugar...
While Conciliator Charles G. Wood of the U. S. Department of Labor was preparing to leave Elizabethton because of the dark prospect for a strike settlement, Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee appointed Major George L. Berry, popular president of the International Pressmen's Union, as a state representative to bring about peace. Both sides cheered...
Students of the University; Band of Music; Chief Marshal and Aids; Committee of Arrangements; President Quincy and Chaplain of the day; The Corporation of the University; Ex-president Kirkland, and President Humphrey of Amherst College; His Excellency the Governor and Suite; The Vice-Presidents of the Day; Senators and Representatives in Congress; Judges of the United States and State Courts, and Attorney General; Benefactors of the University, distinguished Strangers, and other Guests specially invited; The Overseers of the University; Professors, Tutors, and Officers of the University; Gentlemen who have received honorary degrees, and who do not come under any regular...
These prizes consisting of books with rare illustrations, books from noted presses, first editions, and presentation copies, are awarded through a foundation established by Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America in 1637, and who was several times governor of the Connecticut colony. He made numerous educational bequests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times...
Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...