Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated for election by James E. Watson (see page 11). Nonetheless he later elected Ralston to the Senate and in 1924 he was on the point of naming Ralston for the Presidency -after the McAdoo-Smith fight...
Days passed and Louisianans waited ?waited for their Governor Huey P. Long to deny charges leveled at him publicly in the papers of Col. Robert Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman from Louisiana. The charges which Governor Long was challenged to deny read...
...First?That Governor Long frequently appears in New Orleans in public resorts and engages in drunken debauches...
With the dickering for an audience with His Majesty going on, Dictator Primo de Rivera again showed his power by peremptorily dismissing without explanation the Governor of Seville, Jose Cruz Conde, whom General Primo de Rivera himself appointed four years...
...Revolution A" was led by General Jesus Maria Aguirre and his brother General Manuel Aguirre; "Revolution B by General Francisco Manzo and Governor Fausto Topete of the State of Sonora, renowned for fierce Yaqui Indians and divorces by "mutual consent." The "A" and "B" revolts were synchronous, and the high officials concerned have in common that they are all old associates of the late assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30), and are a supporters of presidential candidate General Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies el Capitan de los Cristeros, a nickname implying he is the military chief...