Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to take the result in Pennsylvania as a prophecy of a GOP victory in 1940, the ex-Governor of Kansas did point to it as "a pretty good indication of what will happen next fall...
Bowdoin Prizes totalling $1700 will go to three Undergraduates, and to three graduate students this year. The prizes are given from a fund established by Governor James Bowdoin, A.B. 1745, and increased in 1901 by George S. Bowdoin. It is awarded for dissertations in English not exceeding 8000 words...
Died. Victor Christian William Cavendish, 69, ninth Duke of Devonshire and head of one of England's oldest families; of pneumonia; in London. An M. P. at 23, he held many a high office, was from 1916 to 1921 Governor-General of Canada...
...found someone who had thought it best to warn the Exchange of Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very grave risk. . . . He asked...
...contrary disliked nothing more than.mystics and professional philosophers. He was really, says Author Crow, a brilliant scholar in search of an honest political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following as capital crimes: robbery, an ugly disposition, stubbornness, stupidity, lying. But even the cause of good government...