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...petrel in Massachusetts politics for several years. Registrar of Motor Vehicles under former Governor Alvan T. Fuller, he achieved considerable renown for his active conduct of that office, but later became involved in a violent dispute with the governor and was removed. Since then he has run for the governorship on an independent ticket but was defeated...
Clerking in a grocery store gave Claude Swanson the money to go to Randolph-Macon. There his close friend was James Cannon Jr., now the politico-religionist. He was long (1893-1905) a member of the House. The Jamestown Exposition was the biggest event of his governorship (1906-10). Twenty-three years in the Senate made him No. 1 Democrat on the Naval Affairs Committee. A Big-Navy man, he was sent as a delegate to last year's disarmament conference at Geneva, made his big speech in praise of battleships...
...elected of whom only three (Vermont's Wilson, New Hampshire's Winant, Delaware's Buck) were Republicans.-Of the 24 new ones, 22 were Democrats, two Republicans. In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Virginia the governorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat. Only in Kansas did it pass from a Democrat to a Republican. North Dakota alone managed to change Republican governors without having a Democrat slip...
Kansas. Republican Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon, 45, of Independence, saved his state from a goat gland government when he defeated "Dr." John R. Brinkley, blatant independent, radio medicine man, and simultaneously wrested the governorship away from Democrat Harry Woodring. In 1912 he was a rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary...
...Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late president of famed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; $1,040,515.18: to Son Robert Allan Pinkerton. By Edmund Roebling, last of famed Bridge-builder John Roebling's four sons...