Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franklin D. Roosevelt of the class of 1904 and candidate for the governorship of New York on the Democratic ticket will address the Democratic Club at a luncheon in the Living Room of the Union on Friday, October 12. The luncheon will begin at 1.15 o'clock and is open to students of the College. Tickets are now on sale at the Union...
...least, in last week's outstanding primary election, in Wisconsin. There, the so-called Progressive Republicans, led by boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, amiable son of a fiery father, won all the important nominations-including the Youngest Senator's renomination-except for the Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second...
...such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
...latter's newspapers mendaciously blamed Smith for a bad milk situation in Manhattan. In 1922, Smith refused to lead his State ticket until Hearst was withdrawn as candidate for the U. S. Senate. In 1926, when Hearst supported Ogden L. Mills against Smith for the New York governorship, Smith characterized it as "the kiss of death" for Mills. Mills was badly beaten. This year, Hearst has signed editorials praising Hoover and sneering at Smith...
Bowed with shame Governor Mitsunosuke Kamiyama of Formosa resigned, last week, to expiate the stigma cast upon his administration. President Takeji Kawamura of the South Manchurian Railway Co., laid down his duties as such last week, to pop into the vacated governorship...