Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlined by Governor Brewster-with such joyous phrases as "in the twinkling of an eye" and "like the house that Jack built"-the job reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will...
...Queen Mary's brother and Governor General of the Union of South Africa...
Appointed. George Leslie Harrison of Manhattan; to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet...
...special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln was not so loud as the noise made by those who watched it go; a day later the team got off at Albion College, Mich., and practiced...
Politically, Thomas Fortune Ryan was an ardent, though a self-effacing Democrat, and his death is the most notable one which has been rumored to be in part the result of Governor Smith's defeat. Like many great makers of money, he discovered, late in life, an interest in pictures. His first wife, who died in 1917, was made a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope; in 1920 his son, Allan Ryan, cornered the stock of Stutz Motor Car Co., and was expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times...