Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Alfred Emanuel Smith loomed mightier than ever last week. Not only was he elected Governor of New York for the fourth time by a plurality of some 250,000 votes, not only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor...
...Connecticut was re-elected a Governor, famed for air-travel and for a daughter who is unannouncedly engaged to President Coolidge's only son-Governor John H. Trumbull...
...Minnesota, in the county of Lac qui Parle, in the township of Lac qui Parle, was born, 45 years ago, Theodore Christiansen. He has twice been elected Governor of his native state, in whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...
...Wisconsin, a great manufacturer (plumbing), Walter J. Kohler, was elected Governor. This was a certainty after he had won in the primaries against the traditional La Follette power. Any Governor in a politically doubtful State may become nationally conspicuous-and such a fate was freely predicted for this Business-man-in-politics...
...there, The Fellowship Forum would say something nice; one week, on the Women's Page, was a glowing sketch of Mrs. Herbert Hoover. One of the owners of The Fellowship Forum was aboard the Hoover special train on the Tennessee trip. Another owner is the Republican nominee for Governor in Virginia...