Word: governors
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...Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective...
With the Florida primary over, first indication of the way the 1938 electoral straws will blow, the eyes of the politically-minded turn to Pennsylvania, where on May 17 the Republicans and Democrats will choose their candidates for Governor and Senator, as well as a host of minor officials...
...Bourbon gubernatorial nomination with the support of both the C.I.O. and Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Opposing Kennedy is a Democratic gentleman named Jones who, in 1932, committed the crime of supporting Alfred E. Smith over Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Jones has the support of the regular Democratic organization which includes Governor George H. Earle...
Among the oldest prizes in the University, the Bowdoin Prizes were established under the will of Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745. The Sargent Prize was first offered in 1886-87 by John Osborne Sargent of the class of 1830, and was endowed in 1892 by his daughter, Georgianna W. Sargent...
Recently Professor Lovejoy assailed Governor Nice and Colonel Ames W. W. Woodcock them president of St. Johns College, for their attitude toward the Teachers Oath Bill...