Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey harbor waters, usually strident with ship whistles, were muffled to a low-breathing hush, which was broken heavily by a 21-gun salute from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin...
Police last week extracted from Thomas J. Callegy, Manhattan Negro Post Office porter who last fortnight "discovered" a harmless-hissing "bomb" addressed to New York's Governor Roosevelt, a confession that he (Callegy) had made and sent it himself. Reason: his $1,600-per-year postal job was monotonous, not lucrative. He thought if he did something "heroic" he would be promoted. Would-be-hero Callegy was hospitalized for mental observation...
...evening, the banquet by the Harvard Club of Cincinnati to the visiting Clubs will be given. The toastmaster will be the Honorable Nicholas Longworth '91. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Among the speakers will be President Lowell and the Honorable W. T. Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine...
...charge was: Governor Long, "in an attempt to suppress the freedom of the press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...
Addressed to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, the package was diagnosed as a bomb. Only oldtime bomb-touchers were allowed to handle it. On his way to Albany, Gov. Roosevelt remarked: "That's the first I've heard about bombs since I left the Navy Department...