Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time was in 1920, when he spent two months of a five-year sentence on Governor's Island for skipping the Wartime draft. He escaped to Germany, where he remained for 19 years. There he wed a gardener's daughter, sired five children. Now living in Philadelphia with Grover Bergdoll's aging, militant mother, Mrs. Berta Bergdoll and five-year-old son Erwin (see cut) had to go to Governor's Island to greet...
...nothing are the British fonder than a carefully cultivated anachronism. In Winnipeg the Canadians were proud to produce a quaint ceremony of their own. Before the loopholed gate of old Fort Garry, Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of the Hudson's Bay Co. paid to the King the rent established when King Charles II granted its charter: "Two elkcs and two Black beavers whensoever and as often as Wee our heires and successors shall happen to enter into the said Countryes Territoryes and Regions hereby granted." The King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead...
When plump, ruddy Julius Peter Heil, self-made industrialist, became Governor of Wisconsin last January, his backers had their fingers crossed. Each time unschooled Julius Heil opened his mouth, they held their breaths. Having no such misgivings himself, Governor Heil opened his mouth almost at once to denounce one of Wisconsin's prides, its State University...
...Royal Train neared Winnipeg last week the city was jammed with some 15,000 visitors from nearby States; twoscore U. S. bands were on hand to play God Save The King; a squadron of U. S. Army planes from Minneapolis was hovering overhead; and Minnesota's Governor Harold E. Stassen was waiting to be the first U. S. Governor to shake the Royal hands...
...night before in Winnipeg, Governor Stassen had addressed 400 guests at a civic reception in his honor. Subject: good will. That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...