Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge were host and hostess at their last state dinner, in honor of Speaker of the House & Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.* Among the 60 guests were Senator and Mrs. Robinson of Arkansas, Vice President-Elect Curtis, Governor Byrd of Virginia, Dr. Hubert Work, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler of Manhattan. At 10 o'clock came 100 additional guests. Mrs. Ruth Townsend-Petrovich sang; Rudolph Ganz played the piano...
...Penney home is on Belle Isle, across a causeway from Miami Beach. At Miami, the Hoover party was welcomed by Governor Carlton amid a Florida fanfaronade. Host Penney was not at Belle Isle to greet Guest Hoover; he left, last week, on a round-the-world trip. But he had given Mr. Hoover the keys...
Last week there was an agitation in Boston for a burning. Not for witch burning was the urge, but for check burning. As everyone knows, Alvan Tufts Fuller, recently retired Governor of Massachusetts, never accepted any salary for his eight years of Governorship, Lieutenant-Governorship. Checks were given him totalling $56,000. He saved them as mementos, never cashed them. This he was able to do because he is a millionaire, owns the Packard Motor Car Co. of Boston...
...evening the other colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times, and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford, had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
Drawn and shuffled and dealt out anew, last week, were a whole pack of Ambassadors, Ministers, Special Agents, a World Jurist and a Governor General...