Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Followed threats of a great hard-coal strike, and Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, rushed to the breach...
...right thing a great many unforeseen elements would come in and turn to my advantage. Presidents are broken down by outside enterprises. . . . I try to remember that there is only one ex-President living. ..." This was also the year of that strange luncheon of President & Mrs. Coolidge and Governor & Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
...mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase...
...will be floated as a result of legislation passed, last week in Bucharest, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies. Behind this transaction stand the central banks of 14 nations.* Their joint representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
...Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, son-in-law of the late, great Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, ordered out all available troops and armored cars, but these forces could not do more than check the rioting in restricted areas, though they did prevent the killing of even a single occidental civilian...