Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governorship race, three candidates positively assert that "Old Bob" LaFollette intended them to be the next governor of Wisconsin. Fred R. Zimmerman embellishes all his campaign literature with the following maxim: " 'I have known Fred Zimmerman for 20 years and he has always been right.'-LaFollette." But then, there is the story of Mrs. LaFollette and "Young Bob," who support Herman L. Ekern for governor, who tell how Candidate Zimmerman refused to back "Old Bob" when he ran for President, said, "I have no money and no time...
...Miami, Fla., a righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother...
Interest centred upon "Butcher" Weyler. At 87 he has outlived, but not lived down, the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97)-a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. His position among the older and potent hierarchy of Spanish officers was never successfully challenged until last fall (TIME, Oct. 19). At that time General (Dictator) Primo de Rivera, representative of the younger military clique, ousted him from the gold-braided citadel, which he occupied as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army. Having plotted energetically for eight months, according to despatches, he established himself...
While Wu instantly dismissed traitor Chin from the Civil Governorship of Honan, it was rumored that Sun had tampered with others of Wu's officers, had acquired an ambition to be the Great Man distracted China has sought so long...
James J. Davis last week definitely renounced his aspirations to the Governorship of Pennsylvania, which it was more than half believed he would seek next fall. His reasons? He expressed them in a letter to the mayor of Sharon, his home town...